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clerihew. Sir Humphry Davy Abominated gravy He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. This was the first clerihew written by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956). The English detective-story writer composed it while only a schoolboy, according to his schoolmate G. K. Ches- terton, “when he sat listening to a chemical exposition, with his rather bored air and a blank sheet of blotting paper before him.” Bentley, one of the few people to have a word honoring his mid- dle name, could in Chesterton’s words “write clear and unadul- terated nonsense with . . . serious simplicity.” See georgian. |