[lit-ideas] Literature and Names: Milton
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:40:06 -0800
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via
Romney: a kind of sheep
Romney: a place near Hythe and Dymchurch with a famously narrow-gauge railroad
that runs along the coast
Mitt: had it been with one t, we'd have thought German for "with," but actually
Willard Mitt Romney is named after a relative, Milton Romney. Somehow Milton
becomes "Mitt."
Newt: Gussie Fink-Nottle, newt-fancier, famously eccentric. Need we say more?
Ron Paul: "I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still, da do ron ron" etc.
No relation to Robert Paul one supposes .
Richard John Santorum aka Rick: father from Riva del Garda, Italian lake
country, where Churchill went to paint when he lost the election. Also see
under "Google bombing"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neologism
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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