[Ads-l] "were pick'n up"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> My hypothesis is that a "mown" in that last line would clash with the =
> "blowin'" in the penultimate one.  Too much assonance and near-rhymes or =
> something.  Or not.  But that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
>
Did you ever have to make up your mind?
>

Works for me, actually.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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