Intransitive 'fraught' one more time...

Geoff Nathan geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU
Mon Jul 13 23:55:04 UTC 2009


Just came back from a marvellous production of Sondheim's 'A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum' at Stratford, Ontario. And heard the line:

[SENEX & HERO]
The situation's fraught,
Fraughter than I thought,
With horrible, impossible, possibilities!

The play debuted (bowed?) in 1962, for those keeping score.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
+1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT)
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