Wednesday, May 2, 2007

A Klangwitz

A young man was introduced into a Paris salon, who was a relative of the great Jean-Jacques Rousseau and bore his name. Moreover he was red-haired. But he behaved so awkwardly that the hostess remarked critically to the gentleman who had introduced him: "Vous m'avez fait connaƮtre un jenne homme roux et sot, mais non pas un Rousseau."