02 December 2017

Since Before Your Sun Burned Hot In The Sky...

A Question.

I left this buried in a previous post. Let's try again all by itself:

Who was Dryasdust?

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  1. Sir Walter Scott and Thomas Carlyle both mention Dryasdust. Apparently, an imaginary creation of the former author, who cited him as an authority who tediously presented background info in his books. The name then became a mocking and dismissive label for anyone who presented historical information in a manner that was as 'dry as dust'.

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  2. Right, then.
    So why was this imaginary person writing books at the turn of the 20th century?

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    1. (I'm not leaving you hanging, just setting up the next post)

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    2. Not yet having read your next post, perhaps because someone adopted it as a pseudonym for his own purposes?

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