"Galsworthy" is one of those wonderful names that I can enjoy without remembering what he did. Thanks for the reminder. There are a good many of those names, most of them Englishmen. "Garrison Keillor" almost makes my list, but it is not quite wonderful enough and I can always remember what he has done to entertain me. I would like to write a book (or at least a long essay) about wonderful names. But it probably already has been written. My book (or essay) might start with Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton ("It was a dark and stormy night"), who was a more popular novelist contemporary of Charles Dickens way back but has become almost an object of elite derision now. I just googled him and discovered that he lived a productive and interesting life that included turning down the proffered crown of Greece. My dad had (and read) a big stack of Bulwer-Lytton's books and thought they were just fine.
"Galsworthy" is one of those wonderful names that I can enjoy without remembering what he did. Thanks for the reminder. There are a good many of those names, most of them Englishmen. "Garrison Keillor" almost makes my list, but it is not quite wonderful enough and I can always remember what he has done to entertain me. I would like to write a book (or at least a long essay) about wonderful names. But it probably already has been written. My book (or essay) might start with Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton ("It was a dark and stormy night"), who was a more popular novelist contemporary of Charles Dickens way back but has become almost an object of elite derision now. I just googled him and discovered that he lived a productive and interesting life that included turning down the proffered crown of Greece. My dad had (and read) a big stack of Bulwer-Lytton's books and thought they were just fine.