[lit-ideas] Re: McGonagall o'erthrown
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:01:30 +0900
On 10/9/07, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How unfair of the Guardian to include a typo in Marzials'
> masterpiece--"by" for "be."
>
> I must quarrel with their standard. McGonagall was no "one miss
> wonder"; he was able to turn out bad verse time after time, writing
> *three* poems on the subject of the wonderful bridge over the river
> Tay alone.
>
> Which reminds me of home...
> and there goes the phone...
>
> David Ritchie,
> considering how best to "all run away with [his] head" and stop in
> Portland, Oregon
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