IMMORTAL. etc. -=- WAS Railroad cart

[Wilson Gray]

Curses! Horned again! Larry, you are truly heartless. I was willing to
pass over that in silence. ;-)

-Wilson

On 4/18/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> 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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