[Vwoolf] The store detective's account
kllevenback at att.net
kllevenback at att.net
Wed Oct 3 10:30:42 EDT 2012
Nor do I.
Karen
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From: Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
To: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Sent: Wed, October 3, 2012 7:41:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] The store detective's account
Oh dear, I’ve done it again. I never think that I’ll be taken seriously!
From Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
When rumours were bruited that the Nazarene had survived the crucifixion,
Pontius Pilate interpreted this as a slur on the efficiency of his
administration. He attempted to dismiss such claims with inappropriate levity.
If men sealed a cave with a stone, he said, there was nothing sinister in the
dexterity with which other men might remove it. As for the concubine in the
garden, he considered that her wits had been softened in the course of her
profession. As the rumours increased, however, he sought the assistance of the
Sadducees, Pharisees and Samaritans, but unfortunately their internecine hatreds
overpowered their evidentiary abilities, thus destroying the confidence and
exciting the resentment of Pilate. When he heard several weeks later that the
supposed survivor had ascended into the empyrean leaving no trace behind, his
relief was tempered with anxiety, for he knew that it is easier to behead a man
than a chimera.
Stuart
From: kllevenback at att.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 12:08 PM
To: Stuart N. Clarke ; vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] The store detective's account
How curious, Stuart.
Where and when was this recorded?
Cheers--
Karen Levenback
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From: Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
To: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Sent: Wed, October 3, 2012 6:33:24 AM
Subject: [Vwoolf] The store detective's account
“Another theft to-day. This woman—obviously a lady even tho’ she looked as if
she’d been dragged through a hedge backwards—was trying on a jacket. The daft
thing put her handbag under her mangy fur coat for a minute and then turned
back. Of course it had gone. We had seen you-know-who, but it was too late to
catch her. This Mrs. Woolf doesn’t have an account with Marshall & Snelgrove’s,
so we couldn’t advance her anything officially. More fool me, but I took pity on
the poor soul and lent her ten shillings. Hope she doesn’t lose my address—she
seemed as if she’d lose her head if it wasn’t screwed on! Talk about vague and
odd-looking. Anyway, I found her in the tel. book. She’s something to do with
publishing in Tavistock Sq., apparently.”
Stuart
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