Ocupation: Author
Life: November 24, 1925 - February 27, 2008
Birthday: November 24
Death: February 27
A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.
source: William F. Buckley, Jr. (1966). “The Unmaking of a Mayor”, Viking Adult
topic: Jingles, Thrill, Bells, Jingle Bells