<<Richard Moore said, "As with Mr. T's acknowledgement
on the
'innocent of literature' remark, the 'often wrong, but never
uncertain' line resonates strongly with me but I can't pin
down where I read it or something very, very similar
before.>>
Richard, I think this is a Mencken phrase (describing
himself, of course). I will try to track it down.
Speaking of Mencken and the old school of assertiveness:
Yesterday, as I looked at the new Fowler (the Burchfield
revision), I realized how much the book has lost. I read
Fowler for the same reason I read Mencken: brilliant rants.
This has been toned down so much that the "New Fowler" reads
like a mere dictionary. Yuck. At least I still have the 1926
Fowler, the real thing.
Captain Bill: please be kind on this offtopical digression,
what a humungus pleonasm.
Regards,
MrT
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