I don’t want to sound complaining, but there’s always rain in my heart
“Slawkenbergius in every page of him was a rich treasure of
inexhaustible knowledge to my father–he could not open him amiss; and he
would often say in closing the book, that if all the arts and sciences in
the world, with the books which treated of them, were lost–should the
wisdom and policies of governments, he would say, through disuse, ever
happen to be forgot, and all that statesmen had wrote or caused to be
written, upon the strong or the weak sides of courts and kingdoms, should
they be forgot also–and Slawkenbergius only left–there would be enough in
him in all conscience, he would say, to set the world a-going again.”
– Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Esq.
Einmitt svo hefur mér alltaf fundist um Dr Winston O’Boogie.