| 词汇 | lord timothy dexter |
| 词源 | “Lord” Timothy Dexter. The English are most famous for eccentric writers, but American author Timothy Dwight (1747–1806) of Newburyport, Massachusetts, could hold his own with the most outré of them. “Lord” ’ Dexter, as he called himself, spent his considerable fortune on a curious Georgian mansion in Newburyport complete with his own royal court consisting of a fishmonger poet laureate, a huge witless jester, and an African princess housekeeper, among others. Dexter’s autobiography, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1802), included the names of the men he wanted to serve as his pallbearers. The pamphlet became famous for the complete lack of punc- tuation throughout its 24 pages. Stung by criticism, however, Dexter repented in the second edition, providing an extra page filled with all kinds of punctuation marks. Readers had complained that there were no stops, he noted, so he had “put un A nuf here and thay may pepper and solt it as they plese.” |
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