L'uomo più letto del mondo (e insulti letterari)

E' Matthew Carter, l'ideatore di Verdana e Georgia. "Mr Carter conjured up both fonts in the 1990s for Microsoft, which released them with its Internet Explorer in the late 1990s and bundled them into Windows, before disseminating them as a free download." economist.



Virginia Woolf su Henry James: "I am reading Henry James…and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber", Teddy Roosevelt su Henry James: "A little emasculated mass of inanity", Mark Twain su Jane Austen: "Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone", e Capote su Faulkner: "He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of his, unless you were a fourteen-year-old nymphet". Lawrence Dorfman, The Snark Handbook: Insult Edition: Comebacks, Taunts, and Effronteries (Skyhorse Publishing).