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Tiff is a PhD student in English literature at UC-Berkeley. She takes no prisoners, bars no holds, holds no bars.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

English Editors emulating Chinese Shopkeepers

From Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle (one of the multitude of Victorian books I must read for the dread qualifying exams):

The narrator of the book apparently writes "at an epoch when Puffery and Quackery have reached a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeepers, must write on their door-lintels, No cheating here..."

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