Wednesday, November 05, 2014
A Tale of Two Cities
-Dr Johnson said that a man who is sick
of London is sick of life!
-How ‘bout Cow Gulch, Wisconsin?
Never find a girl here to twink your tiddles?
-If you do, you’re Knight of The Round Table!
-Or of Kippy’s Kool Kup?
-An impossible standard, that latter.
-They also serve who only suck it up!
Labels: drinking, London, love, rural hangouts, Samuel Johnson, sick of life, Wisconsin
Monday, August 23, 2010
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Samuel Johnson embodies the 18th Century
love of directness, usually in a prose balancing
parallel structures of polished art. But he's no
prophet of our frame, so doesn’t get the under-
statement in this particular utterance.
Labels: patriotism, Samuel Johnson
