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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I haven't been following this thread, though for some time I've been wondering about "go there." I was just reading Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train last night (first published in 1950) and came across an extended use of something like "he didn't want to go there" (=mentally, rather than physically) over a few paragraphs. Is this a particularly early use, I wonder? I look forward to what Bill has to say.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Dennis</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Dennis Baron, Head debaron@uiuc.edu</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Kathleen Miller [<A HREF="mailto:millerk@NYTIMES.COM">mailto:millerk@NYTIMES.COM</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 8:40 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: I don't go there</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>A discussion of "don't go there" will appear in Safire's column in this</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sunday's New york Times Magazine (01.23.00) with mentions of Barry Popik,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>David Barnhart and Tom Dalzell.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Kathleen E. Miller</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Research Assistant to William Safire</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>The New York Times</FONT>
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