[Ads-l] Adage: There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

The mailing list gateway destroyed all the diacritical marks which I
carefully inserted, of course. Luckily, if the reader follows the
links they lead to page images which show the text with diacritical
marks.

Apologies for the garbled text. The situation is pathetique (the e
should have an acute accent).
Garson


On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 8:56 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Poster:       ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Adage: There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous
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> Nigel Rees discussed the adage in the subject line in his newsletter
> of April 2015, and requested help from readers. I researched this
> topic last year, but suspended the work. Perhaps someone on the list
> would be willing to provide a translation of the French in the two
> citations below.
>
> The first cite is a solid match, I think. The second cite is a weaker
> thematic match.
>

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