Comments on: An anecdote about an Alexander Pope scheme https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/ before I read the middle Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:20:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: sarafist https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/#comment-303 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:20:41 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4023#comment-303 I love Alexander Pope! He was the Blair Waldorf of his time.

]]> By: Christina https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/#comment-302 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:33:17 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4023#comment-302 That is a fabulous story! I definitely need to brush up on my 18th-century gentlemen (and ladies) of letters. I am planning to tackle Boswell’s Life of Johnson this year, but I’m a little scared of it!

]]> By: aartichapati https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/#comment-301 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:55:43 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4023#comment-301 Of COURSE you’d call the newspaperman Ernest Hemingway 😉 Now if I ever hear of this story from other channels, and they name a different reporter, I am going to refute them with the whole “It was Ernest Hemingway who did that!” And they’ll say, “Um, WRONG CENTURY Aarti.” Sigh. You have already set me up for literary embarrassment.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/#comment-300 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:44:15 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4023#comment-300 In reply to Emily.

I know! Way to go, Alexander Pope!

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/#comment-299 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:44:04 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4023#comment-299 In reply to Charlotte.

Cause he’s the worst, right?

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/#comment-298 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:43:54 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4023#comment-298 In reply to zibilee.

What, when they published The Origin of Laura or whatever it was called? Yes, I remember that! I thought it wasn’t nice of the literary estate manager but I also understood why one would do it. A sensible author should burn all the things he doesn’t want published.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/#comment-297 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:40:28 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4023#comment-297 In reply to Eva.

It was, and I bet that you, in particular, would like it a lot. It seems like a you kind of book.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/#comment-296 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:40:09 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4023#comment-296 In reply to NWK (@MumsyNancy).

No, come on! You are very clever INDEED and you don’t say mean things all the time!

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/#comment-295 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:39:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4023#comment-295 In reply to Alice (@alice_sings).

Pfft, I would have known straight away what the Pope Rape document was. Or else I’d have thought that you had especially weird taste in porn.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/01/16/an-anecdote-about-an-alexander-pope-scheme-3/#comment-294 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:38:26 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4023#comment-294 In reply to Jeanne.

Hahahaha, okay, yes, I guess that is possible. Or, OR, Alexander Pope was kind of a jerk. I am a regular level of clever but I think of THOUSANDS of mean joke opportunities every day and I still nevertheless do not make them. Because I am not a jerk! Like Alexander Pope.

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