The Glory Days

[terrence oflattery]

Did you hear about my paralyzed hand? 
 
Robert Graves points out that The Hand Of Glory is a 
translation of the French main de glorie, a corruption of mandragore, the plant 
mandragora (mandrake). whose roots had a similar magic values to thieves. Cp Dead Man's Hand. 
 
One wonders if Farina would not have published more books that old Tom. 
 
Glory, Alice, means publishing a great novel now and again. 

terrence oflattery <terrenceoflattery at yahoo.com> wrote:
That praises are without reason lavished on the Glory Days of Pdom, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to Dinn days, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by time. 
 

`I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said. 
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'


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