P.S. “You’ll be the first and last to know; it’s just that I feel sorry for you, my dear, but I can’t tell you.”
[From The Life of Sherlock Holmes for Schools (1948)]
“What is a Pee-wee?”
“Well, first a person has to know the secret name of Pee-wee Herman, and so on. Nowadays, the Pee-wee is named Pee-wee Herman, and he has to have the same name as the flower.”
[From The Life of Sherlock Holmes for School Children (1950)]
“What do you like?”
“Dumb people with big mouths.”
“I have to say, my friend, when does a man start to get a bit stupid?”
[From The History and Discovery of Sherlock Holmes (1949)]
“In the old days, everybody had to know the names of all these things, like a dog and a pig, and the names were used for the good and evil spirits; and if one had a bad conscience, the name was used in reference to that, too.”
“[From The History and Discovery of Sherlock Holmes (1949)]
“It’s really sad, but the names they give these animals are no different from the names of the plants they use, and they don’t know about the names at all. But what is the difference between a pig and a dog? And what about a pig’s tail?”
[From The Life of Sherlock Holmes for School Children (1950)]
“I never told him.”
“Then I had some fun.”
[From The Life of Sherlock Holmes for School Children (1950)]
“We don’t know what they’re called.”
[From The Life of Sherlock Holmes for School Children (1950)]
“They were really wonderful. I had them all. I mean, one has to say that I did rather like those ones. It was a good place to have a picnic.”
[From The Life of Sherlock Holmes for Schools (1956)]
“But what could we have learned from that?”
[From The Life of Sherlock Holmes for School Children (1956)]
“We’re trying to understand the nature of language and how it evolved, and that’s the purpose. Why, we’re trying to understand how language works.”
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