O Dammit!
Subtitle: A Lexicon and Lecture from William Cowper Brann, the Iconoclast
Contributors: Jerry Flemmons (Editor); William Cowper Brann (Editor)
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: September 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780896724051
Subjects: General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Brann, William Cowper,; 19th Century American Prose; Quotations, American; Journalists; Humor; Drama; American - General; Brann, William Cowper; Quotations; American; 1855-1898; Authors
First sentence: Ladies and Gentlemen: There are many things which I cordially dislike, but my pet aversion is what is known as a "set" lectureone of those stereotyped affairs ground out with studied inflection and practiced gesture; hence, I shall ask permission to talk to you as informally and as freely as though we were seated in friendly converse around the soda fount of a Kansas City drug store, and I want you to feel free to talk back as though we had gotten into this difficulty by accident instead of design.