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[Jonathan Lighter]

"Seattle," not "Spokane."

JL

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), author of the still hilarious
> > Arthurian spoof, "The Misfortunes of Elphin" (1829).
> >
>
> Available for download from GBooks, if anyone else besides me is
> interested.
>
> Both _Jere-pronounced-Jerry_ and _Peacock_ have always seemed to me,
> somehow, "uncalled for," so to speak, as names.
>
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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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