The Duchess's Sequence of Ideas

In Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers, the Dowager Duchess is always getting her quotations confused. But this isn't a character trait deployed only to indicate absent-mindedness; as this analysis shows, her substitutions generally have something to say about the book's themes. Sayers, as her fans well know, is very serious about the matter of quotations.

The Duchess’s Sequence of Ideas

I am currently re-listening to Dorothy Sayers’s Clouds of Witness in audiobook, and enjoying the Dowager Duchess, who has always been one o…

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