Strange bedfellows, part 2
Even though I realized I had originally given my posting on this topic the malaprop title "Odd bedfellows," my favorite part of the Salon article was its quotation from a concerned biologist's e-mail message: "I am reminded of the saying, 'The wife of Caesar not only should be chaste, but also appear to be so.'" That's a remarkably longwinded and un-pithy way of saying "Caesar's wife must be above reproach." Yes, I must be allowed to make these little observations from time to time. They give me some weird satisfaction. I don't like it when established quotations are butchered.
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