P defends V. ...

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 29, 2010, at 9:30 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

>> But the phrasing— "thought I'd learned a thing or two"— boils down  
>> to "I
>> didn't learn a damned thing."
>
> No. It means, I still had much to learn.

Funny, thought it meant he fried his brains out with Dr. Hilarius'  
LSD. My Bad.

> The quote about not learning
> a thing is an allusion to Henry Adams you can't get unless you read
> _The Education_; and in both uses it's ironic.

Like I was unaware of that?

> Henry gets the best
> education of anyone in his generation, but he still knows "not a
> thing."

And how is this day different than any other?

I say it's spinach and I say to hell with it.