As I mentioned here, I’m reading Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (Puffin Classics). And I am loving it.  I have even put off spending time researching the politics of the day in Scotland that you really need to know to figure out what is going on.  Maybe I’ll re-read it after I do that.

But I really just want to post this statement.  The story is told in first person and sometimes puts me in mind of some private-eye crime-thrillers I have loved (or Frank Miller’s Dark Knight or Batman: Year One; which was the original reason I ever read Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett).  I won’t spoil it by giving context

I’ve seen wicked men and fools, a great may of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

By the way, remember that horrible cartoon “version” of Treasure Island?  Well, Joss Whedon’s verse would be a perfect–perfect!–setting for a scifi version of Kidnapped.

Speaking of which, let’s post another quotation I’ve been obsessing over lately.

Sure as I know anything, I know this – they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people… better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin’. I aim to misbehave.

Usual (not sure what you allow yourself to watch/read) disclaimers for my endorsements, by the way.