I’m With Caligula

Having yesterday attended a movie that was interrupted by not less than three cell phone calls, I have to say I’m entirely in sympathy with Caligula in this matter:

Caligula used the whip with his own hand, and on the spot; even upon people who, by talking too loudly at the theatre, spoilt his enjoyment of the players. He did not much care who the offender was…

From an article called “The Whip” in the August 4, 1860 edition of All The Year Round, as excerpted by Abel.

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