Next to the originator of a great sentence is the first quoter of it. Said Emerson. Stories happen only to people who know how to tell them. Said Thucydides. A novel of intellectual reference and allusion, so to speak, minus much of the novel, is money for old rope. Said David Markson. The quotation of a misquotation is still a misquotation. Said @Thucydiocy. (more…)
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Down the Rabbit-Hole
Posted in Musings, Uncategorized, tagged David Markson, literature, quotations, Stacy Schiff, Thucydides on December 16, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Sphinx 