Hi, Ardith Hinton -> Alexander Koryagin!
I read your message from 31.07.2018 15:52


 AH> Hi, Alexander! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

 ak>> This quote was taken from the humorous story "A lecture on
 ak>> walking" (Last leaves, 1945), written by Stephen Leacock.

 AH>> The thought occurs to me, BTW, that the title "LAST
LEAVES" is a
 AH>> pun. This collection was published the year after Leacock's
 AH>> death... and in English the word "leaf" can be used to mean a
 AH>> single page of a book. If I stop there, the pun is recognizable as
 AH>> such. But I'd also like to add that metaphorically we say
 AH>> we're "taking a leaf from [So-and-So's] book" when we are doing
 AH>> just as another person would have done or we've adopted an idea
 AH>> from them.

 ak>> Maybe LAST LEAVES was a collection of the last Leacock's stories

 AH> I'd say "of the last of Leacock's stories" there. I doubt the
 AH> author was "the last Leacock" because he had younger
siblings & a
 AH> son of his own.

Or, may be in this way (to avoid two ofs)?:
Maybe LAST LEAVES was a collection of Leacock's last stories, published by somebody?


 ak>> O. Henri

 AH> Pun alert! "Henri" is the French spelling of
"Henry". Over Here "OH
 AH> HENRY!" is the name of a candy bar. Which came first? Since I've
 AH> been reading up on Stephen Leacock I think it's somebody else's
 AH> turn.: - Q

I read it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry
But anyway wrote it wrong. ;-))

 ak>> is very well known writer in Russia,
 AH> |a very well-known writer

Meow!

 AH> ...In many ways I
 AH> find it less surprising that Russians would be familiar with the
 AH> work of a USAian... but both authors predate the sort of clever
 AH> merchandising we see nowadays.

You mean that they became famous without great advertising campaigns?

 ak>> A touching story, indeed.

 AH> Yes. Another which I particularly enjoyed was "The Gift of the
 AH> Magi" (1905). Judging by the number of spinoffs, I guess I'm not
 AH> alone in that.

Not bad, and the end was quite funny and happy. Although, touching stories
as a rule are not fun, but they wake inside us something human.

When I was a boy I read a story about a lonely house, abandoned in the
forest. The people left it many years ago and also left their dog. The dog
probably remembered its happy days in the house and every night it returned
to the desolated, dilapidated house... to wind the wall-mounted cuckoo
clock. Maybe the ticking sound made the deserted dog feel better?

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2018

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