two more anaphora examples

Mon Jul 17 14:08:51 UTC 2006

these work, but because of our knowledge of the real world:

1.  NYT Book Review, 7/16/06, p. 10, Michael Kazin review of a
biography of Henry Ward Beecher:

Soon after his 60th birthday, Beecher became a celebrity of a far
less exalted kind.  Theodore Tilton, his longtime friend and sometime
journalistic collaborator, accused the preacher of committing
adultery with his wife, Elizabeth.

[to see the issue, suppose that instead of "adultery" the sentence
had "sodomy".]

2.  NYT Book Review, 7/16/06, p. 28, iUniverse ad for The Golden Door
by Charles B. Nam:

Relatives awaiting immigrants from Eastern Europe in 1893 discover
they died at sea.

[try instead: "discover they don't know which port the ship is headed
for".]

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