The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews

✍ Scribed by Bangs, John Kendrick

• Book ID: 108877250
• Publisher: BiblioBazaar
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 184 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

GOOD!� cried the Idiot, from behind the voluminous folds of the magazine section of his Sunday newspaper. �Here�s a man after my own heart. Professor Duff, of Glasgow University, has come out with a public statement that the maxims and proverbs of our forefathers are largely hocus-pocus and buncombe. I�ve always maintained that myself from the moment I had my first copy-book lesson in which I had to scrawl the line, �It�s a long lane that has no turning,� twenty-four times. And then that other absurd statement, �A stitch in the side is worth two in the hand��or something[4]�like it�I forget just how it goes�what Tommy-rot that is.�