Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
I thought this would fit in with the spirit of the place. My friend Hal Johnson (author of the young adult novel Immortal Lycanthropes) likes to read a wide range of unusual books. Today on social media, he describes something he's currently reading:
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No proverb fan should be without one of the best jerk-books of all time, Nicholas Breton’s 1616 pamphlet “Crossing of Proverbs.”
Each proverb it lists comes with a crossing, or refutation, which is generally so petty as to be hilarious.
Proverb: A Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Crossing: Not if they be fast limed.
Proverb: Faire words pacifie wrath
Crossing: Not in dogged spirits.
Proverb: The sunne shines through all the world
Crossing: No, not in a close chest.
It’s a fair cop! Two birds trapped by birdlime are better than one in the hand. It’s jerky, but Breton has a point. A niggling technicality of a point.
I love this book!
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No proverb fan should be without one of the best jerk-books of all time, Nicholas Breton’s 1616 pamphlet “Crossing of Proverbs.”
Each proverb it lists comes with a crossing, or refutation, which is generally so petty as to be hilarious.
Proverb: A Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Crossing: Not if they be fast limed.
Proverb: Faire words pacifie wrath
Crossing: Not in dogged spirits.
Proverb: The sunne shines through all the world
Crossing: No, not in a close chest.
It’s a fair cop! Two birds trapped by birdlime are better than one in the hand. It’s jerky, but Breton has a point. A niggling technicality of a point.
I love this book!
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