I say persona, he says personum?

[Wilson Gray]

And I'd always thought that it was Thompson's _Uncle Duke_ personum
from Doonesbury that was the "ribald" one.

-Wilson

On 11/18/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 4:27 PM -0500 11/18/07, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >Joe Klein ("a columnist for Time magazine and the author, most
> >recently, of 'Politics Lost'") writes:
> >
> >"Hunter Thompson was always much more, and sometimes a bit less, than
> >the sum of his ribald public persona."
> >
> >I suppose he might have written "totality", but for me "sum" requires
> >a plural.  Perhaps his next book should be "Plurals Lost".
> >
> >The New York Times Book Review, Nov. 18, 15/1.
> >
> >Joel
> >
> He had me at "always much more, and sometimes a bit less".
>
> LH
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