Dr. Hurlbutt’s quotation of the day for July 30, 2009

Posted on Thursday, July 30, 2009, at 7:06 am, by Dr. Allardyce Hurlbutt.

“… I resolved, if possible, to get to the ship; so I pulled off my clothes … and took [to] the water. … [Once aboard] I went to the bread-room and filled my pockets with biscuit …”

  —  Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Comments (closed):

Karla wrote on August 1, 2009, at 12:05 pm:

This has what appears to be a logical inconsistency (which I had not noted when I read the book myself!), namely how did Robinson Crusoe suddenly have pockets? Defoe apparently lacked a continuity editor. Or was Robinson Crusoe actually a marsupial?