"inside trying to get out"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu Jun 18 01:46:07 UTC 2009


George Orwell said something close to this in 1939; Cyril Connolly had a perhaps closer version in 1944.

Sometimes I get the impression that there are people on this list serv who do not have a copy of The Yale Book of Quotations...

Fred Shapiro

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