[lit-ideas] Re: Anonymity and revelation...

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:48:28 -0600

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I'm really tired, didn't read this too well.  The Man on the Clapham Bus.
Silas Lapham?  What does this mean?

It means "the man in the street", "common sense", "what passes for intelligence", etc.

According to Wikipedia:
"The man on the Clapham omnibus is a term used in English Law to signify an educated and intelligent but non-specialist person.

The term derives from a quotation of a phrase of Lord Justice Bowen (who was counsel in the Tichborne Case) in the case of McQuire v. Western Morning News [1903] 2 KB 100. Clapham is an unremarkable English neighbourhood in south London, said to consist of ordinary people. Omnibus means a public transport bus."




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