scream-of-consciousness

[Dan Goncharoff]

On Mar 11, 2011 1:10 PM, "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 1:03 PM -0500 3/11/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>1994 Don Oldenburg in _Washington Post_ (May 30) C5: Of his unpublished
>>collection of 125 war poems, many are scream-of-consciousness pieces that
>>fly out of nowhere.
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>>23,000 raw Googlits.
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>>BONUS
>>Ibid., quoting a former army nurse: "We really were kids....You got these
>>real fuzzy-faced boys, and you had these real fuzzy-faced girls taking
care
>>of them."
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>>Meaning "young and innocent," of either sex.
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>>Fortunately, the few Google hits on "fuzzy-faced girls" seem to refer
>>chiefly to canines.
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> I thought it referred to the result of what happens to the girls in
> question when people with my quality of eyesight take their glasses
> off.
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> LH
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