Nikolai Gogol

"For the moon is usually made in Hamburg and made quite poorly. I'm surprised England doesn't pay attention to this. It's made by a lame cooper, and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all. He used tarred rope and a quantity of cheap olive oil; and this has led to such a terrible stink all over the earth that you have to hold your nose. And that's why the moon itself is such a delicate sphere that people can't live on it, and now only noses live there. And for the same reason we cannot see our own noses - because they're all on the moon." (from Diary of a Madman, 1835)