facacta

[Wilson Gray]

_Ferkakte_?

-Wilson

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> from Rolling Stone, Nov. 26, 2009, p. 49:
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> Springsteen insisted that he and Billy Joel sing "New York State of Mind."
> "He loves singing that song," says Joel. "He always fucks up the phrasing,
> but it's Bruce's way of doing it, and in some _facacta_ [italicized] way, it
> actually works."
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> Yitalian. Who knew?
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
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