“Old
Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale,
He
ate his egg with a ladle in an egg-cup big as a pail,
And
the soup he took was Elephant Soup and fish he took was Whale,
But
they all were small to the cellar he took when he set out to sail,
And
Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
‘I
don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.’"—English
man of letters G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), “Wine and Water,” in his The Flying Inn (1914)
(The image accompanying this post shows John Huston
as Noah in the director’s 1966 epic, The
Bible—In the Beginning…)
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