M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[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)

>From James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (Ed. 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)

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Samuel Johnson on a badly-walking-on-two-legs dog: "it is not that he
> does it badly but that he does it at all'
> [paraphrase actually, so check out for perfection] in with the
>> Enlightenment.
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