"It's X's world. We're (all) just living in it."

[Alice Faber]

Tropeworm, anybody?

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> An "earphone" ?
>
> A whole "headphone" would be the kind that really drives you crazy.
>
> JL
>
> Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> Poster: Laurence Horn
> Subject: "It's X's world. We're (all) just living in it."
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>
>>>From today's Times (E1):
>
> "Three centuries later, it's still Louis XIV's world. We're just
> living in it."
>
> It occurs to me that although I've heard this countless times, with
> various values for the variable in the subject line, and of course
> without the necessary presence of the "still" in the version cited
> here, I have no idea where and when it originated, and Google, which
> offers 1620 hits on "world we're just living in it", doesn't
> immediately help. Does anyone know? (And what's the
> lexical/constructional counterpart of an earworm, anyway?)
>
> Larry
>
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