Thursday, August 18, 2005

Literal Answers to Rhetorical Questions

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
No one well informed, of course, since the writer in question died in 1941; but during her lifetime she was known to have a sharp tongue, and many persons had reason to fear her wit.


I particularly like "What shall we do with a drunken sailor?" (one of my fave 45s when I was a wee one) to which the answer, apparently, is rehabilitate him.