you know what always irritates me just a little?  It's when someone says the
following:

>
> He's been called the greatest American writer of all time. His bestselling
> novel, "The [sic] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — the book, Ernest
> Hemingway wrote, from which "all American literature comes"
>
>
Now, perhaps I'm splitting hairs here.  But Hemingway never said this.  A
character in one of his stories said it.  Which means, it's like saying Poe
once said that "I looked for the opportunity to dismember him" (Tell-tale
Heart).

Is it just me here?  I beg you, members of the guild -- please help me to
overcome my own rather severe weaknesses on this extremely trivial
matter...  best, -hb


-- 
Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
Professor of English
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO  63108
314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h)
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