SAMUEL JOHNSON
IS INDIGNANT:
that Scotland has so few trees.
How perfectly delivered is this? Each time I read it it makes me laugh out loud! How audaciously brief! We have read a short story in a minute.But what does it mean? Why should the great Samuel Johnson allow his emotions such rein for such an absurd reason?
And then, when you examine the tale its parts are far more tricksy than may first appear. great fun for the copyists amongst us and conserves ink and energy!
FABULOUS!!!