[Dragaera] random thoughts on recent (or not) Texts

[Alexx Kay]

> It is a great quote! Here is what google found:
>
> A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for.
> John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic, 1928

I am dubious.

Googling for "Salt from my attic" produces *only* references to this
quote, no other mention of the existence of such a book.  BookFinder.com
has never heard of it.  A search for John Shedd on BookFinder.com yields
no results, and the (few) John Shedd's listed don't seem likely to be the
source of this quote.  Googling "John A. Shedd", again, finds only
references to quotes, no specific references to a person.  This is not
conclusive, but it is highly suggestive.

Attribution of quotes on the internet is flaky at best, and most often
resembles the results of a game of Telephone...

Alexx

"Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You
 take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on."
  -- Neil Gaiman, trying to counter the notion that Harry Potter is a
     "rip" of his own "Books of Magic" graphic novel.