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February 10, 2015
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Noise proves nothing. Often
a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an
asteroid. - Mark Twain
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
I love Twain and agree that noise alone proves nothing, but I hate this stupid, vapid quote and am sad to see Twain cast such thoughtless, elitist derision on the very essence of life! Jesus, Sam, why herald a contemptuous quote that minimizes the female in the form of the commonest, most lowly bird, the hen? She MERELY lays an egg, does she? And then she has the incredible temerity to celebrate the fact she just did the job of propagating her species, does she? Oh, yes, such an unimportant act - laying an egg - what a vain female she is, this commoner!
Yah, if men could lay, they'd lay something important and grandiose as an asteroid - not something so disgustingly COMMON, LOWLY, MUNDANE and unimportant/unimpressive as an EGG!
"Lead, kindly fowl! They always did: ask the ages. What bird has done yesterday man may do next year, be it fly, be it moult, be it hatch, be it agreement in the nest. For her socioscientific sense is sound as a bell, sir, her volucrine automutativeness right on normalcy: she knows, she just feels she was kind of born to lay and love eggs (trust her to propagate the species and hoosh her fluffballs safe through din and danger!)" James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Put THAT on your front page, Sam - THAT quote deserves WORD-ing, unlike the ugly Twain quote.
2 comments:
I love Twain and agree that noise alone proves nothing, but I hate this stupid, vapid quote and am sad to see Twain cast such thoughtless, elitist derision on the very essence of life! Jesus, Sam, why herald a contemptuous quote that minimizes the female in the form of the commonest, most lowly bird, the hen? She MERELY lays an egg, does she? And then she has the incredible temerity to celebrate the fact she just did the job of propagating her species, does she? Oh, yes, such an unimportant act - laying an egg - what a vain female she is, this commoner!
Yah, if men could lay, they'd lay something important and grandiose as an asteroid - not something so disgustingly COMMON, LOWLY, MUNDANE and unimportant/unimpressive as an EGG!
"Lead, kindly fowl! They always did: ask the ages. What bird has done yesterday man may do next year, be it fly, be it moult, be it hatch, be it agreement in the nest. For her socioscientific sense is sound as a bell, sir, her volucrine automutativeness right on normalcy: she knows, she just feels she was kind of born to lay and love eggs (trust her to propagate the species and hoosh her fluffballs safe through din and danger!)" James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Put THAT on your front page, Sam - THAT quote deserves WORD-ing, unlike the ugly Twain quote.
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