OT: 1909

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/18/2010 08:32 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

>Aauuuggghhhhhh!!!!!

Thanks for the appreciation -- greater, I assume, than "groan".

Apparently Sir Walter Raleigh was ath[e/o]tic also.  In his preface
to "The History of the World", he wrote "Now for King Henry the
Eight".  Or at least so it is transcribed in Alasdair Gray Mainly's*
"The Book of Prefaces."

Joel

* The title page reads
  The Book
       of
   Prefaces
Edited and Glossed
by Alasdair Gray
      Mainly

The Harvard catalog reproduces this, but removes the capital from "mainly".


>On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> > At 1/17/2010 08:20 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >
> > >I'd say "athetic". Or nothing at all.
> >
> > Is that your considered athetesis?
> >
> > Joel
> >
>
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