Greetings from Cloud-Cuckooland
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Courtesy of my new favorite quotation, from Dorothy Sayers’ Gaudy Night:
“[H]owever realistic the background, the novelist’s only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offense in the world.”
Indeed!
The comment is made in the context of apologizing for having arranged various bits of the historical record to suit the author’s [...]
