Kellyanne Conway Consistently 'Says the things that are not.'

[MineralMan]

Now, this is a question from a very difficult English Literature test. 100 points to the house of the first person who recognizes the "say the thing that is not" allusion and its source. It's not fair to use Google, though.

[underpants]

1. Marking to see the answer

[teach1st]

2. No Google

First source to pop into my head is Lewis Carroll.

[MineralMan]

3. Nope. It's much earlier than that.

But, you're in the right country.

[teach1st]

4. Google

Aha! I guess I'm not too (spoiler) this morning. More coffee!

[MineralMan]

5. It's from one of my favorite parts of that book.

Most people have not read the entire book, but that phrase jumped out at me, and I've never forgotten it. I'll be interested to see if anyone else remembers it without prompting.

[Lithos]

20. He is buried in Dublin

Nt

[dalton99a]

7. Hint: Yahoos

[MineralMan]

11. Excellent hint! I will award 50 points to your house, as well.

[dalton99a]

12. That phrase struck me as well.

[MineralMan]

13. I think most people only made it to Lilliput in their English classes.

More's the pity. Despite the difficulty of the language, reading the entire book is more than worthwhile.

I always wondered whether Orwell got the idea for "Newspeak" from that section.

[dalton99a]

18. I wouldn't doubt it, since Swift was such a favorite

"From what I have written it may have seemed that I am against Swift, and that my object is to refute him and even to belittle him. In a political and moral sense I am against him, so far as I understand him. Yet curiously enough he is one of the writers I admire with least reserve, and Gulliver's Travels, in particular, is a book which it seems impossible for me to grow tired of. I read it first when I was, eight — one day short of eight, to be exact, for I stole and furtively read the copy which was to be given me next day on my eighth birthday — and I have certainly not read it less than half a dozen times since. Its fascination seems inexhaustible. If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them."

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift?

[MineralMan]

10. Bingo! Very good! 100 points to your house!

From the section, "A Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels#Part_IV:_A_Voyage_to_the_Land_of_the_Houyhnhnms

[JDC]

8. Quran?

[MineralMan]

15. Sorry, but English Literature only.

[JDC]

19. without the Google I am nude.

Marked for later review. Thx

[Dave Starsky]

9. John Milton - Paradise Lost

[MineralMan]

14. No, sorry. See upthread.

[Dave Starsky]

16. Drat!

I knew it was something I read way back in high school.

[Jacob Boehme]

17. Now for the KICKER....

Does anyone know what the Lilliputians were fighting about before Gulliver arrived? As Mineralman asked, no Googleing.