[lit-ideas] Re: Grice's Eighth Wonder
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 14:30:09 -0700
On Jun 21, 2015, at 4:42 AM, (Redacted sender "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" for DMARC)
wrote:
Ralph isn't a sailor in "H. M. S. Pinafore", strictly, but it may be
claimed that German sailors did sail Penzance. Just for the record. This
would
prove Geary.
"For he might have been a Proosian, but in spite of all temptations, he
remains an Englishman" -- said of the sailors about Ralph, THINKING he is a
sailor, when he ain't.
Strictly speaking he is, until he isn't. And before that, he was Joe
Go-Lightly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore
Thanks for causing me to read this. I didn't know that Gilbert's father was a
naval surgeon.
David Ritchie,
where last weekend was "Pinafore"
and this one isn't
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