But a nose is a nose is a nose, as somebody nearly said, and our hero should indeed have offered rather more to posterity than that.
In Coward’s terms: “nobody should be famous for having a nose and the real Cyrano has other claims on our attention, not least of which is his status as a bad boy of French literature”..
But a nose is a nose is a nose, as somebody nearly said, and our hero should indeed have offered rather more to posterity than that