graphically slaughtered

[Jonathan Lighter]

1998 Martin Arnold in _N.Y. Times_ (July 30) E3: Obviously, it's too early
to tell whether novelists and would-be novelists will get back to the
graphic slaughter of war.

JL

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > I posted the following last August 3
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> And more's the pity. I really miss those -ly's.
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