Still pumpin' 'em out after all these years
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Wed Feb 5 18:07:01 UTC 2014
On Feb 5, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Thus the elision in the pronunciation "Sappo."
>
> BTW, Roz Chast once published a cartoon strip about parents trying to
> explain the poem, "The Man with a Hoe," to their teenager. You don't need
> to see it because it practically rewrites itself.
i would love to use this for the Language of the Comics at Stanford this quarter, but i haven't been able to find it through searches. any clue as to where i can find it? (searching through all the Chast cartoons available online one by one is not a viable alternative.)
arnold
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