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    Which author referred to himself (humorously) as the : Puny rhypographer?

    Question #73524. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Dec 20 06 3:59 AM)


    skysmom65

    		Urquhart or Urchard, Sir Thomas (both: ûr'kərt) , 1611–60, Scottish translator and author. A royalist, he was knighted (1641) by Charles I and fought in the civil wars. He wrote treatises on mathematics and linguistics, but he is noted especially for his superb translation of three books (first two, 1653; third, 1693) of the Gargantua of Rabelais.
    http://www.answers.com/Urquhart

    Dec 20 06, 5:09 AM
    tragic_flawed

    		I thought it was Rabelais, but the only reference to Google- is Urquahrt- as you have found.....

    Dec 20 06, 3:49 PM
    zbeckabee

    		In support of Urquhart: "Urquhart, incidentally, who turned into English the immense tools and stools of the puny rhypographer, also presciently provided us with a remarkable parody of Joyce."

    http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/lubin1.htm

    Dec 20 06, 4:00 PM
    lanfranco

    		I have to suggest that perhaps you've misunderstood (though it is, of course, possible that I am the misunderstander).

    The "immense tools and stools" turned into English were not, obviously, those of Urquhart, but rather those of the author he was translating: that is, Rabelais.

    Dec 20 06, 6:11 PM

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