have his Kate and Edith

Paul Frank paulfrank at POST.HARVARD.EDU
Sat May 22 16:15:05 UTC 2010


"Keith is both a leg man and a breast man -- a fellow who wants to
have his Kate and Edith too, as the saying goes." Graydon Cartar
reviewing Martin Amis' The Pregnant Widow in today's International
Herald Tribune.

It's not quite a saying, as it only gets 143 plain-vanilla Google hits
and eight Google Books hits, but it's pretty good.

Paul


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