And I’m proud to be an American, where at least my reading rooms are free…
…although I think the English have it when it comes to comparing idiomatic scatology.
How about every philosopher interested in the a posteriori ever? Although Quine would probably be the funniest.
“Last June, a journalist phoned Ibrahim Nasrallah and asked him how it felt to face a host of charges concerning national security. It was the Jordanian-Palestinian writer’s first warning that he was facing prosecution.”
Chronology is a funny thing.
Didn’t Freud come up with that woman = house thing first? Although he might have just borrowed it from Wharton the way he “borrowed” all his ideas from Nietzsche (and let’s face it, ideas aren’t all he borrowed from Nietzsche…)
I guess Elizabeth Bowen doesn’t count (via Bookslut).
“Ivan Tolstoy, who is also a broadcaster for Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe, writes in a forthcoming book that the CIA secretly arranged for the publication of a limited Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago in 1958 to help Pasternak secure the Nobel Prize in Literature that year.” (via ALDaily)