One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at
dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr.
Pollard," said he, "my book, "The Biography of a Dead Cow", is published
anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in
reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century.
Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the
critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not
wish the public to know who wrote it."
-- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
