Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Martha Neumann hopes to learn if Freud indeed made a comment often attributed to him: “Immortality is being loved by many anonymous people.”
Ann Martin seeks sources for a favorite postprandial family comment: “Very good, what there was of it, and plenty of it, such as it was.” Google has yielded an 1871 source: “Washoe Revisited,” from J. Ross Browne’s Adventures in the Apache Country. But Browne was born in Ireland. Can anyone push further back?
“Eurasian” (September-October). R.W. Tucker recognized this anecdote from “How I Was Initiated into the Best Tribe,” an essay from Dead Man in the Silver Market (1953), by Aubrey Menen.
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