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Sunday, March 14, 2010

On misquoting

There is an art, or, rather, a knack to misquoting. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the book and miss.
Douglas Adams

2 comments:

M L Jassy said...

Books are always throwing themselves at me rather than the other way round. I do though think that Doug Adams had a piercingly accurate sense of literary humour.

TimT said...

Indeed he did, though maybe the same cannot be said for those who misquote him...

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