:57:02
Did he show any inclination then
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of surrender to influence?
:57:10
No.
:57:11
After all, all he has done
is to debate, eloquently,
:57:15
on a most interesting subject.
:57:17
And, after all,
:57:18
that is all one can ask
a good university professor to do.
:57:24
So what shall we say
to the Cardinal?
:57:34
Nothing.
:57:35
My lord, we have to respond.
:57:38
Spalatin, there are
two ways of saying no
:57:40
to someone you believe to be
stronger than yourself.
:57:43
The first is to say nothing
:57:46
and go on merely doing
what you were doing before,
:57:50
and pretend
that you never heard,
:57:53
allow time and inertia
to be your allies.
:58:00
And the second?
:58:01
And the second is to say no
in such a kind and thoughtful way
:58:07
it befuddles them.
:58:10
Naturally, if both
these strategies fail,
:58:13
there is nothing but to relent.
:58:17
Or to fight:
:58:20
And of course,
if you decide to fight,
:58:22
you also have to decide to win.
:58:27
No, I'm not going to
send my monk to Rome.
:58:31
They'll only kill him.
:58:34
It's so irritating.
:58:36
Who are they
to deprive my university
:58:39
of such a fine mind?
:58:42
Your little German monk
is still spewing filth at us.
:58:46
He has a new cartoon circulating.
:58:49
He calls you an ass
playing a harp, Cajetan.
:58:55
The point, Your Holiness,
is that he does not write in Latin.
:58:59
Luther writes in German.