Transcript It’s La Rochefoucauld’s 400th birthday: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:François_de_La_Rochefoucauld.jpg Unfair, I know, not to quote him, but there are dozens of sources out there. Instead, a memory from fifty years ago of first looking into TS Eliot and turning the page and finding this: ‘The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn. When evening quickens faintly in the street, Wakening the appetites of life in some And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript, I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he at the end of the street, And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript." ‘ Once read, the image stays forever. OK, just the one, and carefully chosen: Comme c’est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits au contraire ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 10:12:13 +0000
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