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Robert Carlyle is a wonderful (and frightening) actor, but the movie pumps him up to be such a terminator--"his only goal is chaos, and he grows stronger every day until he dies"--that when this little guy comes shambling on and turns out to be such a soulful twit, the movie loses all its credibility.
Thomas Carlyle in 1857, wrote of Some smaller quantum of earthly enjoyment.
Krugman's column will henceforth be known as "The Dismal Science," a phrase too famous to be ownable by anyone, except possibly British essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), who coined it.
Carlyle looks like just the sort of fellow who'd think it his duty to explore things that the rest of us, deep down, want to know about but wouldn't dream of investigating ourselves.
The way we talk about the character of leaders has come a long way since Leo Tolstoy railed against Carlyle's great-man theory of history 130 years ago in War and Peace : "To study the laws of history, we must entirely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements that influence the masses."