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Re: GG: quote about centipede?
Gould attributed the saying about the centipede to a saying of Arnold
Schoenberg. I don't remember where I read it. Now Shoenberg did not invent
the saying. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations attributes it to a Mrs.
Craster, who died in 1874:
The Centipede was happy quite,
Until the Toad in fun
Said "pray which leg goes after which?"
And worked her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in the ditch
Considering how to run.
Frank Forman