Just for the record, here are Emily Dickinson's
quatrains about Nobodiness.
"I'm nobody! Who are you?" by Emily
Dickinson
(published in 1891)
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody,
too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you
know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name
the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
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Enviada em: quinta-feira, 9 de agosto de
2012 16:38
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] Nobody? Nemo?
let's call the whole think off!
These days almost anything you want to know is supplied by Google. I've
just checked, and I see I made a terrible and dreadful mistake in
2006. Hogarth's Mr Nobody has no arms either --- his legs come out of his
ears. See image on British Museum website, and quote: "One of
10 illustrations to the manuscript by Ebenezer Forrest of Hogarth's
Peregrination, 1732; emblematic tail-piece of 'Mr Nobody', with the head and
legs of a laughing man in a tricorne and powdered wig, with a wine bottle, a
glass, a trophy of a knife, spoon and pipe, the whole backed by crossed oars.
Pen and brown ink, with grey wash and watercolour, over graphite.
Signed: "W.H.""
Alas, C
In a message dated 09/08/2012 15:30:36 GMT Daylight Time,
chaiselongue@ATT.NET writes:
p.s. and thank you, too Chas W and so on, for the Hogarth information.
I thought I knew the big Hog man, but I have never seen his nobody, excuse
me, his Nobody - or read the joke - what a treat! I must take up a
collection of these nobody jokes!
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Can't resist
mentioning that the "Nobody" joke has tickled others. William Hogarth
produced a fairly well-known drawing of Nobody. This consisted of a man
furnished only with head, arms and legs.
Good Lord !
SIX YEARS AGO ! Nobody's memory is better than mine --- and he runs
faster, too.
Charles
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