Robertson Davies Quote

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.


Note on a thesis draft, where a graduate student who had used "hopefully" to mean "it is to be hoped"; published in Robertson Davies : Man of Myth (1994) edited by Judith Skelton Grant


You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.