_Narrative_
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 13 01:23:55 UTC 2011
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> "are a sexy narrative" = 'make for a good story' ?
"Hm. Nobody ever explained it to me that way, before!"
I.e., "Now that you've pointed it out, it's obvious."
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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