Still pumpin' 'em out after all these years

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 5, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Thus the elision in the pronunciation "Sappo."
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> BTW, Roz Chast once published a cartoon strip about parents trying to
> explain the poem, "The Man with a Hoe," to their teenager. You don't need
> to see it because it practically rewrites itself.
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...but if you want to anyway, you can scroll down to it at http://italiangreyhounds.org/errata/page/2/?attachment_id

LH

> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:12 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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