[Ads-l] Amelioration of "notoriety"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 24 00:04:31 UTC 2016
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Or am I misusing the Thesaurus?
Not IMO, Jon. After all, you're unfortunately notorious/enjoying notoriety
yourself for still having to try to get Vol.III published long after the
second edition - or at least a supplement - should have appeared.
"Life sucks, and then you die," to coin a phrase.
Remember the good old days, when there were publishing houses like Mouton
that specialized in publishing scholarly work that other publishers
ignored? Otherwise, colorless green ideas might still be sleeping
furiously.
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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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