Carolyn Kunin "What you call the "first
limerick" doesn't make sense without the second, so I think they are both the
work of MRK, who, being a monsignor, was very Catholic, and being very Catholic,
was very anti-atheism, which of course is part of the force of the limerick
..."
PS (Jansy Mello): The
first limerick, by Monsignor Knox, is believed to have been addressed
to the Bishop of Berkeley and his theory of "subjective idealism." Differently
from your opinion about Catholic reasoning, the Bishop of Berkeley
employed it in the cause of Faith.
While I was checking one of his more famous sentences (against
infinitesimal calculus), I came across a wealth of information that, I
confess, was lost on me. B.B's marvellous sentence ironizes "the
ghosts of departed increments" and I'm happy to limit my enjoyment of it to
how it sounds to me...
Words...words... "Knox" may sound like "Nox", "the Greek counterpart
of Nyx, the Roman goddess of the night," mentioned in
Ada.
There's a lot of information about Lucette and Nox in the VN-L
archives. . .