Re: OT-CHAT: Chaucer (was CULT: Transplanting)

J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey wrote:

> I apologize for cluttering the message. I've just always loved that turn of
> phrase . . . 
> Thank you for reminding me so politely that the entire world isn't peopled
> by silly ladies who had leisure time in their youth for memorizing the
> Norton Anthology. . .
> 
> celia
> storey@aristotle.net
> Little Rock, Arkansas

Celia -- Please don't apologize for (nor discontinue) sharing with us
the fruits of your "misspent" youth. A biographer of Sir Walter Scott
noted " . . . the boy's lameness had a nobler result; giving him leisure
for a large range of reading, -- miscellaneous indeed, but lying in
those imaginative regions, the air of which strengthens the higher
nature within us."

Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA 
jgcrump@erols.com
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