gjansen@aflcio.org
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 18:36:29 -0400
When this started making the news, I found myself thinking of entry 66 in
Notebook F of Lichtenberg's *The Waste Books*:
"If physiognomy becomes what Lavater expects it to become, children will
be hanged before they have perpetrated the deeds that deserve the gallows;
a new kind of confirmation will thus be performed every year. A
physiognomical *auto-da-fe*."
(There are slighting references to Lavater elsewhere in *The Waste Books,
*which NYRB has brought back into print:
https://www.nyrb.com/collections/all/products/the-waste-books?variant=3D1094932745)