unearths some literary gems.
Sebastian Faulks's Jeeves and the Wedding Bells:
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"Sir Henry was deterred by the Latin name, which he described as 'fancy nonsense.'"
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There are times to take offence, but this was not one of them. I left my high horse unmounted--though tethered pretty close.
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From John Cleese's memoir:
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'When the powers that be persisted in refusing to roll [a film editor's] name at the end of The 1948 Show, we gave him a credit nevertheless, but for "Choreographing the underwater chariot race." This went through unchallenged.'
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'But we raced ahead.... confident that from a score of decent three-minute sketches (or scenes) we could construct a hundred-minute film, and so displaying an optimism similar to that of two youths who, having put up a garden shed, now decide to build a cathedral.'
