Patrick Lagacé on Boileau’s outburst
Patrick Lagacé’s lede Thursday morning: “Au royaume de la notoriété réelle ou imaginaire, la phrase « Sais-tu à qui tu t’adresses ? » n’a jamais clos le bec à qui que ce soit, bien au contraire.”
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Uatu 09:11 on 2025-08-21 Permalink
If you have to ask then you ain’t that important lol
walkerp 09:33 on 2025-08-21 Permalink
Me and Patrick aligned. 🙂
PatrickC 10:32 on 2025-08-21 Permalink
I can’t resist passing on a story from another discussion of this phrase (the huffy person in question being Susan Sontag). An eminent man once came to see Baron Rothschild about a loan. When told to take seat while the Baron finished writing something, he shouted, “Do you know who I am?” The Baron looked at him and said, “Take two seats.”
EmilyG 11:12 on 2025-08-22 Permalink
Reminds me of a joke.
A man gets to the airport. He goes up to a line of people, and pushes his way to the front, saying to them, “Do you know who I am?”
He gets to the front of the line and the person at the desk there says, “You have to wait in line like everyone else. You can’t just go to the front of the line.” The man says, “Do you know who I am?”
The desk clerk phones their boss, saying, “What do I do? There’s a guy here who doesn’t know who he is.”