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by severine
2481 days ago
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It was a wicked quote: > In his poem “Each June I Made a Promise Sober,” Ogden Nash voiced the common cry of those who work in bookstores or libraries or live otherwise surrounded: so many books, so little time! Always the guilt-inducing pile of unread books, eyeing us like neglected pets. He lists some of the classics he hasn’t read—my own list includes, I blush to say, Moby Dick, War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, The Faerie Queen, etc. etc. etc. etc.—and concludes: “So every summer I truly intend /
My intellectual sloth to end /
And every summer for years and years /
I’ve read Sherlock Holmes and The Three Musketeers.” Sources: https://www.bookbarnniantic.com/single-post/2014/05/24/74-RE... Nash, Ogden. "Each June I Made a Promise Sober," The New York Times Book Review (June 7, 1953), 1. |
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