Disappointing truth
I'm sure that when I encountered in one of my dad's dictionaries of quotations (Oxford? Bartlett's Familiar? I think the former) the line A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket
, it was attributed to John Donne. In fact it was uttered by a fellow "John Dennis" by name. Perhaps the unfamiliar name, finding no foothold in my memory, fell out of view, and the quotation, rather than floating free, fell into the orbit of a more famous and well-known name in the orthographic and phonological vicinity (and that's how you mix metaphors!). At any rate, a disappointment. The quotation is, as one might guess, dear to me.
(Surely the prompt for the preceding.)
Comments
on 2007-08-22 16:06:50.0, peli commented:
I was traumatized at 10 to discover the guy who wrote Narnia was not Lewis Carroll
and, further, on 2007-08-22 17:15:57.0, The Modesto Kid commented:
There are no white rabbits in Narnia.