porcinality (and synchronicity)

[George Thompson]

I read the Mark Twain essay no doubt 50 years ago, but remember it as if it were yesterday -- or, at least, only 49 years ago.  In any event, I think that the song referred to a railroad conductor punching the tickets of the passengers.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
Date: Monday, October 5, 2009 4:31 pm
Subject: Re: porcinality (and synchronicity)
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> At 10/5/2009 01:54 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >--followed immediately by Joel's sent out at 1:05.  I had never heard
> >of the Punch Brothers (or Chris Thile) and nor did I know to what
> >Joel's "Punch, brothers, punch" alludes (evidently a Mark Twain
> >description of the earworm phenomenon*), but I figure it's all a
> >matter of the cosmic vibes.
>
> Larry, did you do the right thing and research the etymology of the
> group's name?
>
> I sign off with the Zen valediction:
>
> Punch with care! (in the presence of the passenjare).
>
> Joel
>
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