They Spoke About It

[That] reminds me of a very famous two-part French cartoon (ca. 1896 or so) in regards to the infamous Dreyfus affair. The first cartoon depicts a very fancy french dinner table with distinguished guests, women in their finerie, wigged servants behind each guest pouring wine. The caption under the cartoon says "Ils n'en ont pas parle" [They did not speak of it.] The second cartoon shows the same dinner table, but the guests are no where to be seen, the chairs overturned, the glasses broken, the candelabra crushed, the food spilled and spoilt. The caption read "Ils en ont parle" [THEY spoke about IT.] Draw (no pun intended) your own conclusions.

-- Albert Knapp MD Photo.net Patron, February 18, 2003; 06:41 P.M. Eastern