Do you know, I was completely certain that not only was it by Parker, but that it was in my Parker anthology, and that the title was "Two-Volume Novel." In fact TVN is a different poem, and I can't find "Higamous, hogamous" at all.
Doesn't matter how much you know about the fallibility of memory, it's still hard to believe your own might be at fault, isn't it? Anyway this is now driving me crazy--does ANYONE have a solid attribution? Robin ********************** Robin Pearce Abrahams Boston University [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Charles M. Huffman wrote: > Is there any evidence that attributes the phrase to either Parker or > James? > > ************************ > Charles M. Huffman, Ph.D. > Chair, Psychology Department > Cumberland College, Box 7990 > Williamsburg, KY 40769 > ************************ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robin Pearce [mailto:rpearce@;bu.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:50 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences > Subject: Re: higamous, hogamus > > > Actually, I don't know where the rumor about William James got started. > The poem is by Dorothy Parker. (The first stanza, that is.) > > Nice sequel. > > ********************** > Robin Pearce Abrahams > Boston University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Likely wrote: > > > > > >William James scribbled down the Great Thought that had appeared in > his dream. > > > He later found he had written: > > > Higamous, hogamous, woman's monogamous. > > > Hogamous, higamous, men are polygamous. * > > > > > >This morning I found this on the notepad by my bed: > > > Higamous, hogamus, alpha's dichotomous. > > > Hogamus, higamous, p is continuous. > > > > > >*From memory -- anybody got a reference? > > > > -David > > > > > > =================================================================== > > David G. Likely, Department of Psychology > > University of New Brunswick > > Fredericton, N. B., Canada E3B 5A3 > > History of Psychology: http://www.unb.ca/psychology/likely/index.htm > > OALP Login for Psyc4054: httpS://www.unb.ca/sweb/psych/likely > > > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
