So Geographers, in Afric-maps
With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;
And o’er uninhabitable Downs
Place Elephants for want of Towns.
(Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
5th July, 1971
Jonathan Swift
Wednesday’s Piece
Humour is odd, grotesque, and wild,
Only by affectation spoil’d;
‘Tis never by invention got,
Men have it when they know it or not.
(Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745)
John Lentell
18th December, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he showed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.”
(a Href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift”>Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745)
John Lentell
7th May, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
(Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745)
John Lentell
November 1st, 1968
Lentell Soup 