I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, … - James Joyce

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It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

James Joyce

I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

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