"aspire to"

Mon Jan 20 17:35:12 UTC 2014

"Random House...Kryptonite...Oxford...!! Getting...weaker!!!  If I
could only --"

END OF PT. I !!!!!

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JL

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> <font size=3>At 1/20/2014 01:08 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:<br><br>
> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:35
> PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>
> > aspired to (become), ellipsis.<br><br>
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> "Ellipsis"? Where?</font></blockquote><br>
> The ellipsis was of "be" or "become".<br><br>
> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>JL: 
> <<"players she aspired to when she was a
> kid.">>  [ellipsed]<br>
> WB: aspired to (become), ellipsis.  [that is, unellipsed]<br>
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> JL:  <font size=3>I  aspired to be Superman
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> Joel</font></body>
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