[Ads-l] Awe-dropping revisited?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Mar 17 03:19:57 UTC 2017


On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Just you alone filled me with ah


Aw, hell, Larry! Now, I can’t unread that! Heretofore, I’d always
interpreted that line as,

Just you alone filled me with, "Ah!"

Oh, well. Nothing lasts forever.


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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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