Hemingway didn't say that
Subtitle: the truth behind familiar quotations
By: Garson O'Toole
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little A
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781503933415; 9781503933408
Subjects: Quotations; Common fallacies; History and criticism
Other titles: Hemingway did not say that
Description: Garson O'Toole -- the Internet's foremost investigator into the dubious origins of our most repeated quotations, aphorisms, and everyday sayings -- collects his efforts into a first-ever encyclopedia of corrective popular history. Containing an enormous amount of original research, this delightful compendium presents information previously unavailable to readers, writers, and scholars. It also serves as the first careful examination of what causes misquotations and how they spread across the globe. Using the massive expansion in online databases as well as old-fashioned gumshoe archival digging, O'Toole provides a fascinating study of our modern abilities to find and correct misinformation. As Carl Sagan did not say, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The detective, the database, and the mechanisms of error; title: Group error. Synthesis ; Ventriloquy ; Proverbial wisdom; title: Reader error. Textual proximity ; Real-world proximity ; Similar names; title: Author error. Concoctions ; Historical fiction; title: Finders keepers. Capture ; Host.