Fun with phrases: "in a previous life"

[George Thompson]

I use the phrase myself on occasion, not supposing that I am being
uproariously funny, but wryly indicating a phase of my life that is now
completely over, and none too soon, either.

GAT

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:22 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I was a student, I worked as night watchman at construction sites.
> That was a previous avatar.
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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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