MDMD2: Ort

[Dave Monroe]

"'Peace, Grandam,-- reclaim thy Ort.  The Learned One
has yet to sink quite that low.'  The Dog, with an
expressive swing of his Head, makes a dignified Exit,
no more than one wag of the Tail per step." (M&D, Ch.
3, p. 26)

Main Entry: ort 
Pronunciation: 'ort
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle Low German orte
Date: 15th century
: a morsel left at a meal : SCRAP

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>From James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (Ed.
and abridged by Christopher Hibbert, New York:
Penguin, 1979 [1791]), "Part IV: 1764-70," pp. 123-54
...

"I told him that I had dined lately at [Samuel]
Foote's.  'Pray, Sir, is not Foote an infidel?' 
JOHNSON. 'I do not know, Sir, that the fellow is an
infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as
a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never
thought upon the subject.'  BOSWELL. 'I suppose, Sir,
he has thought superficially, and seized the first
notions which occured to his mind.'  JOHNSON. 'hy
then, Sir, still he is like a dog, that snatches the
piece next him.  Did you never observe that dogs have
not the power of comparing?  A dog will take a small
bit of meat as readily as a large, when both are
before him.'" (pp. 146-7)

Which reminds me, that "giant Mutton Chop" of Mason's
@ p. 19 ... but, again, a quick one, then I'm away,
then I'm back hopefully to all but finish off Chs. 2 &
3.  Koans, learned dogs, cock-fights, et al. ...


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