Baguette this!

mid-morning on Wednesday, the 12th of January 2005 by Chad

Read this on NRO The Corner and thought it damn hilarious:

UN CADEAU FOR JONAH AND J.J. [Rod Dreher]
I thought of Jonah and John when a friend forwarded me this passage from the 1979 novel “Shibumi,” by the novelist Trevanian. It’s a conversation between Le Cagot, a Basque, and Hel, an Englishman:
Le Cagot patted the hostess’s bottom and sent her after their food. “I don’t think we have made a great friend there, Niko. And he is a man to be feared.” Le Cagot laughed, “After all, his father was French and very active in the resistance.”

Hel smiled. “Have you ever met one who was not?”

“True. It is astonishing that the Germans managed to hold France with so few divisions, considering that everyone who wasn’t draining German resources by the clever maneuver of surrendering en masse and making the Nazis feed them was vigorously and bravely engaged in the Resistance. Is there a village without its Place de la Resistance? But one has to be fair; one has to understand the Gallic notion of resistance. Any hotelier who overcharged a German was in the Resistance. Each whore who gave a German soldier the clap was a freedom fighter. All those who obeyed while viciously withholding their cheerful morning ‘bonjours’ were heroes of liberty!”