Tuesday, August 1, 2017

It Is A Truth Universally Acknowledged, That Jane Austen's Most Famous Sentence Is Perfect For Riffing On

Geoff Nunberg: "If you're looking to add a literary touch to your article on pension schemes or emergency contraceptives, you're not going to get very far with 'Call me Ishmael.' But 'It is a truth universally acknowledged' is always available as an elegant replacement for 'As everybody knows' when you want to introduce some banal truism."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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