
from Eric Maschwitz's lyrics to A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square with music by Manning Sherwin
Ask the Dust (1939)
from Eric Maschwitz's lyrics to A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square with music by Manning Sherwin
“Good-bye Dr. Steve,' I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.”
Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time
Merlin I http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/merlin_i.htm, st. 2
1840s, Poems (1847)
Variant: Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
Source: Four Quartets
On academic conferences, p. 179
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf
Context: Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, “This lecture was a load of crap.” The more profound a professor’s distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.