"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not "faux-Mao Red Book." Faux Charlie Chan.

JL

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Gregory McNamee <gm at gregorymcnamee.com>wrote:

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> This is not an authoritative source, but it gets at something that had been
> tugging at my memory:
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> http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2516475/a_fish_without_a_bicycle.html?cat=9
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> When I was at university (1975-78) I spent a lot of time hanging around
> with philosophy majors (I was a classics major myself), and somewhere in
> that mix I encountered the phrase "Man without God is like fish without
> bicycle," with its faux-Mao Red Book syntax. The article linked to supports
> the thought that that's the original form, though it needs further nailing
> down.
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