[Ads-l] worm

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Aug 10 01:40:52 UTC 2015


On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> "snake"


Well, "trousers-snake" I'm familiar with. However, as "sandwich a la
_Colette_" clearly indicates, perhaps it's the case that I'm familiar with
a higher class of umliterature than you. <har! har!> ;-)


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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