We were talking to a venerable literary lady yesterday and she recalled how
when William Empson was once staying with her and her husband he came
downstairs evidently agitated and brandishing a pair of scissors, announcing
that he was unable to escape from his trousers. He'd been trying without
success to cut his way out. The famously eccentric author of 'Seven Types of
Ambiguity' had been temporarily deserted by the conceptual constructs
'buttons' and 'how to undo them'.
--
(David) "Dave no more" Joseph Bircumshaw
"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
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