Michael, re: penises and pencils,Chris wrote the eulogy of Noel Peattie.
Penicillin should be an erection-producing drug, no? And it should cost but pennies.
I see that you post excerpts from Donald Culross Peattie occasionally. His son Noel was a friend of mine. Eulogy here: http://www.librarian.net/noel.html. Publisher of his poetry: http://www.regentpress.net.
With thanks for the brain food,
Chris
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
Pencil and Peattie
I received the following email from Chris Dodge: