Comments on: Ruskin and Ourselves http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/maureen-mullarkey/2013/01/22/ruskin-and-ourselves/ Fri, 24 May 2013 23:50:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Maureen Mullarkey http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/maureen-mullarkey/2013/01/22/ruskin-and-ourselves/#comment-10 Maureen Mullarkey Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:32:53 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/maureen-mullarkey/?p=5#comment-10 Yes, it is Nash’s line. Willy Wonka quotes it in the movie, leaning over
a vat of chocolate. Good to e-meet someone who remembers Ogden Nash.

]]> By: Lizabet http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/maureen-mullarkey/2013/01/22/ruskin-and-ourselves/#comment-9 Lizabet Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:07:07 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/maureen-mullarkey/?p=5#comment-9 I’m not sure what you mean by the Willy Wonka principle. Wasn’t that line (“Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker”) by Ogden Nash?

]]> By: Rob Honig http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/maureen-mullarkey/2013/01/22/ruskin-and-ourselves/#comment-2 Rob Honig Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:04:09 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/maureen-mullarkey/?p=5#comment-2 You’ll be okay with Ruskin. He had his own edge: “I believe all my blame to be wholly trustworthy, having never yet had occasion to repent of one depreciatory word that I have ever written.”

Always nice to find a Ruskin quote.

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