[Ads-l] "eat, breathe, and sleep"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 11, 2015, at 8:41 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Seems unlikely to me.

Indeed, but the answer I recall to the Mad Hatter's question is also unlikely:  because Poe wrote on both.

LH
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> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
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>> Subject:      Re: "eat, breathe, and sleep"
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>> On 11 Apr 2015, at 12:04, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> =
>> wrote:
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>>> 'To be entirely dedicated to.'
>>> =20
>>> Quite familiar to me for decades. Not in OED.
>>> =20
>>> TV promo: "Amy eats, breathes, and sleeps Beauty!"
>>> =20
>>> 1952 _Pottstown [Pa.] Mercury_ (June 13) 8: Conner is labor's man. He =
>> has
>>> espoused the cause of organized labor since his early youth. It is his
>>> life, a subject he eats, breathes and sleeps in addition to working at
>>> constantly.
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>> Likely inspiration:
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>> The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he SAID =
>> was, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
>> 
>> "Come, we shall have some fun now!" thought Alice. "I'm glad they've =
>> begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that," she added aloud.
>> 
>> "Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the =
>> March Hare.
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>> "Exactly so," said Alice.
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>> "Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
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>> "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I =
>> say--that's the same thing, you know."
>> 
>> "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say =
>> that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
>> 
>> "You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I =
>> get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!"
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>> "You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be =
>> talking in his sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing =
>> as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"
>> 
>> "It IS the same thing with you," said the Hatter, and here the =
>> conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice =
>> thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, =
>> which wasn't much.
>> 
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