Call me Earnest
Earnest/Jack: "Well, really, Gwendolen, I must say that I think there are lots of other much nicer names. I think Jack, for instance, a charming name."
Gwendolen: "Jack?... No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations... I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John."
from The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
Posted by jackhodgson at August 26, 2006 11:02 AM