{"id":8481,"date":"2013-09-16T18:31:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/16\/a-misattribution-corrected\/"},"modified":"2013-09-16T18:31:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:31:49","slug":"a-misattribution-corrected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/16\/a-misattribution-corrected\/","title":{"rendered":"A Misattribution Corrected"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/span>Ryan Fitzgerald writes,<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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A minor quibble. Your recent post<\/a> ("Forever Reading . . .") is in error, I'm afraid. After noticing the mistake on more than one occasion throughout several years following your wonderful blog, surely the time has come that I assist a fellow stickler. Schopenahuer did not author the line, "For ever reading, never to be read;" he merely quoted Alexander Pope, who once said, <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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"A Lumberhouse of Books in every head,<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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For ever reading, never to be read." (<\/span>Dunciad III 189\u201390<\/a>)<\/em> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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I only know the verse myself from reading R.J. Hollingdale's translation of the Great Pessimist's essays and aphorisms, so I can see how one might attribute it thus. But alas, I know how much you honor precision, so I'm compelled to help where I can.  That's it — the first error I've been able to catch since 2005 or so. Excellent work, I'd say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Ad majorem Dei gloriam!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr.  Fitzgerald turns out to be correct.  In "On Thinking for Oneself," an essay I had read circa 1980, Schopenhauer does indeed quote Alexander Pope, though only the words "For ever reading, never to be read."  And the reference he gives is a little different: Dunciad<\/em> iii, 194.<\/div>\n
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I in turn have a quibble with Mr. Fitzgerald's "minor quibble."  A quibble is minor by definition, so 'minor quibble' is a pleonasm.  Pleonasm, however, is but a peccadillo.<\/div>\n
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