Don't Interrupt Me...

This is why history is cool; it proves that people have always been able to come up with a clever quip. From a lecture in my Academic Libraries class:

"Fray Luis was teaching at the University of Salamanca when he was charged [by the Spanish Inquisition] with distributing a "worldly" translation he had made of the Song of Songs in 1572. He was ... thrown into prison for five years and tortured, he somehow managed to survive and, after an admonition, gained his release.

He thereupon promptly returned to his teaching at the university, resuming his lectures at the precise point where they had been interrupted when he was arrested, remarking coolly to his class, 'As I was saying at the last time...'"