Graffito: "To Be Is To Do" "To Do Is To Be" "Do Be Do Be Do"

[W Brewer]

LH:  <<…et d'ailleurs, s'il n'existait pas il faudrait l'inventer.>>
WB:  Oh.  Mon Dieu?


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Sep 18, 2013, at 8:51 AM, W Brewer wrote:
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> > DG:  <<Holmes does say "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the movies, even
> > though it is not in the books.>>
> > WB:  Also repeated endlessly in the myriad Old Time Radio broadcasts.
> > "You must remember this," a quote is just a quote  (from Wikiquotes):
> > <<L'étymologie est une science où les voyelles ne font rien et les
> > consonnes fort peu de chose. (Etymology is a science in which vowels
> > signify nothing at all, and consonants very little.)
> > Quote attributed by Max Müller (1823–1900), Lectures on the Science of
> > Language (2003), Kessinger Publishing, p. 238.>>
> > According to my teacher Yakov Malkiel, the quote cannot be found anywhere
> > in the works of Voltaire. (But, as I pointed out, it sounds like
> something
> > he could well have said. Doesn't count, does it?)
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> …et d'ailleurs, s'il n'existait pas il faudrait l'inventer.
>
> LH
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