"Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."

[Laurence Horn]

The sentence, or the content?  The former (with its unusual but not unprecedented topicalizing of an indefinite) is a riff on Frost, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" ("Mending Wall").

LH

On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> I saw this today in the NYTimes:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/opinion/greenhouse-crack-cocaine-limbo.html
>
> It feels wrong to me, but I can't put my finger on it. Is it technically
> correct, but too Yoda-like? Help, please.
>
> DanG
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