a possibly minority position

[Chew G]

If we're talking about Reger, the secondary source is Slonimsky's Dictionary of Musical Invective, quoting Reger as follows: "Ich sitze in dem kleinsten Zimmer in meinem Hause. Ich habe Ihre Kritik vor mir. Im naechsten Augenblick wird sie hinter mir sein."  (On the web at http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/1945/WSB/reger.html)
 
By the way, is there any equivalent in Russian to Czech "hajzl" (which as a non-expert I have always assumed comes from Austrian German "haeusl") for the lavatory?  Not exactly a euphemism though, and it's used pretty widely as a personal insult as well.
 
Geoff
 
 Geoffrey Chew
 Institute of Musicology, Masaryk University, Brno
 chewg at seznam.cz
 
 Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London
 g.chew at rhul.ac.uk

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It doesn't sound at all like Johnson to me. A quick look at Google shows
attributions to several anons, Max Reger, Winston Churchill, Noel
Coward, George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton and Voltaire, none with a
verifiable reference. One Reger citation does give the recipient and
date (Rudolph Louis, 1906) - but I would have been more convinced if it
had been quoted in German. Sounds like one of those general purpose
witticisms.
Will Ryan


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