Dear all:
One of our professors has a quotation question. This is a good one for Friday
afternoon, so here goes! According to the professor:
>“The lights are going out everywhere, civilization decays, justice
disappears, we are left with nothing but lawyers.” p. 196 of Ralph McInerny,
Irish Tenure: a Mystery set at the University of Notre Dame (New York: St.
Martin’s Minotaur, 1999.)
>
>The speaker is a fictional character depicted as a pompous English professor
and Notre Dame’s authority on G.K. Chesterton, who flaunts his erudition by
throwing in quotations from all over: “The Fairie Queene,” and Shakespeare to
W. H. Auden, seldom appropriate to the context. The above is set off in single
quotes in a longer speech with no source given. It is so suited to the
context I suspect McInerny of making it up.
I have already checked all the usual sources, so if anyone knows the answer
please send me an email. TIA!
--Bryan M. Carson
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