《Minutes of a Meeting at the Mitre》作者： - Robert F. Young【EPUB】

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It is Samuel Johnson the conversationalist that we remember not Johnson the writer. A tavern chair he said is the throne of human felicity—and during the lastthird of his life he sat enthroned talking. His faithful recorder was James Boswell and in the story below Robert F. Young draws upon one of their first meetings to give us another fine variation on a classic fantasy theme. MINUTES OF A MEETING AT THE MITRE by Robert F. Young THE ORIGINAL OF THE FOLLOWing literary fragment was among the batch of Boswelliana recently found in the west tower of the castle of Cernach County Cork Ireland and everyindication points to its having been included in an earlier version of The Life of SamuelJohnson. Although the biographers reasons for excluding it from the final manuscript wereburied with him and cannot be dug up again we are nevertheless justified in drawing thefollowing tentative conclusions: 1 that upon rereading the passage in question Boswellrealized