The Boy understands attribution. You read a quote; you read the name of the person who said it. "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
We're in church, and there's a Whitman quotation up on the on the side screen. He reads it out loud. "That means Walt Whitman said that," he tells me.
"Yup."
He thinks for a moment. "Say something by Shakespeare," he asks.
"Uh, okay... 'To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune--"
"Shakespeare. 'I don't understand anything you just said.' Boy K."
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4 comments:
Ha! That was a brilliant response.
How goes the business?
You could totally embroider that on a pillow and sell it. I, for one, would buy it.
Hey Lady
That was awesome!
Happy Mother's Day!
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