porcinality

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Oct 6 19:10:20 UTC 2009


At 10/6/2009 01:58 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>In the original, as I remember it, all those medial commas are actually
>"with"-- rather sotto voce, so they might easily have been missed.

Dunno -- I simply picked up the first transcription I found Googling,
and won't even attest to their accuracy elsewhere.  Someone should
listen to a recording.  (But somehow adding "with" loses the rhythmic
flow for me.)

Joel

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