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Sorry, It Was Never in My Mouth: "The Monica Lewinsky case, per se, has left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths," says pundit-in-training Ruth Conniff of the Progressive ( Fox News Sunday ).
In Richard Conniff's urbane account of travelers' putdowns of some of the great and not so great cities of the world [XIV,3], he quotes a splendid passage from Dr. Samuel Johnson's poem on London, which culminates with the words, “Here falling houses thunder on your head, / And here a female atheist talks you dead.”
While Mr. Conniff is doubtless aware of the connection, he does not mention the fact that Johnson's poem is throughout a very close and respectful pastiche of the Latin poet Juvenal's Satire III, on the city of Rome.
The passage in Juvenal's poem which corresponds most closely to the one quoted by Mr. Conniff is near the beginning (lines 7-9), where Juvenal, building up to an ironic crescendo, shudders at the thought of: