“The Dionysian is no picnic.”
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”
A misquotation of a haiku by Auden found elsewhere on this page ("Thoughts of his own death" etc.)
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Variant: Thoughts of his own death,
like the distant roll
of thunder at a picnic.
“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.”
“Red China will make Libya look like a picnic if that government feels threatened.”
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011), Q&A
“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/16/he-knew-he-was-right-2 note: Our Short National Nightmare note: The New Yorker note: In The New Yorker, October 16, 2006 note: 2000s, 2006
Source: Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
A Leaf of Spearmint, III
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)