"what goes around, comes around" proverb

[degustibus]

must be karma, then

--- Imran Ghory <imran at BITS.BRIS.AC.UK> wrote:
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> proverb
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> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > Does anyone (Fred, Barry?) have any info on this
> recent-ish proverb
> > "What goes around, comes around"? The only
> discussion here seems to
> > have been a posting Barry made on the headwords in
> a 2002 glossary
> > of prison slang. How early is it?
>
> An article in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 20,
> No. 2 has a quote
> from Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo (1972) which uses
> the phrase,
>
> (p. 218 MJ),
>
> "Time is a pendulum," he declares. "Not a river.
> More akin to what goes
> around comes around"
>
> Imran
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