NPPF Preliminary: The Epigraph

[Jasper Fidget]

> On Behalf Of s~Z
> 
> >>> (And, it gives pause
> to wonder which actual footnote from Boswell's _Life_ he might have
> written
> down in that pocketbook of his.) <<<
> 
> 3 I had this anecdote from Dr. Adams, and Dr. Johnson confirmed it.
> Bramston, in his "Man of Taste," has the same thought:
> 
>     "Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the worst."
> 
> [Johnson's meaning however, is, that a scholar who is a blockhead, must be
> the worst of all blockheads, because he is without excuse. But Bramston,
> in
> the assumed character of an ignorant coxcomb, maintains, that all scholars
> are blockheads, on account of their scholarship. -- J. BOSWELL.]


Kinbote refers to death as a time "when the world of timorous fools and trim
blockheads has fallen away far behind." (237)