IMMORTAL. etc. -=- WAS Railroad cart

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:46 PM -0400 4/18/07, Doug Harris wrote:
>Indeed. But that begs the question

Does it really?  :-)


>, is a "reward" necessarily a good thing
>that, in the words of the immortal bard, is "a consummation devoutly to be
>wished"? Not, I venture to suggest, when the reward, such as it is, is to be
>an infernal one." ;)
>(the other) doug
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>Isn't this "passed" a shortening of "passed on to his / her eternal reward"?
>
>-Wilson
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