[Ads-l] NYTimes: "A _fathom_ of lies"

[George Thompson]

THOMAS ALLEN's *Marine LIST*.

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Thursday, July 3d. Light fog, calm ***

Friday, 4th.  Foggy, rainy morning ***

Saturday 5th.  Foggy, rainy morning ***

Sunday, 6th.  Rainy, foggy morning ***

Monday, 7th.  Foggy, misty morning ***

Tuesday, 8th.  Fog upon fog, nine fathom deep this morning, wind at S.

Wednesday, 9th. Fog upon fog, seventeen fathom deep this morning, wind S.

            *We are all here yet, and keep lead and line going -- soundings
pretty regular, but very foggy -- Hay, pressed or loose, in good demand*.

            Connecticut Gazette. (New London, Connecticut), July 11, 1788



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On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 2:43 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Landry Prep did offer Mr. Sassau a compressed version of The Tempest
> (“Full fathom five thy father lies”).
>
> The Tempest was one of the google hits I had  before I added quotes around
> "fathom of lies" but I don't think I should add Mr. Sassau's usage to:
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Full-5Ffathom-5Ffive-5F-28catchphrase-29&d=DwIFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v2Wtu7DQZxSBMSJv-oEMNg&m=fP_-WL58xh0nPJV_0xjZlHDU9WJbWsIwC5lawyyryLg&s=26XvlmadTboxMCKH7d2FqZf0C4GB9q_D4e8hUhnjkOM&e=
>
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 1:27 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Interesting.  Maybe as awful as it was, Landry Prep did offer Mr. Sassau
> a
> > compressed version of The Tempest (“Full fathom five thy father lies”).
> >
> >
> > > On Dec 7, 2018, at 1:56 PM, Andy Bach <afbach at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >
> > > *A Times investigation* found that a Louisiana school previously
> > celebrated
> > > for getting underprivileged black students into top colleges falsified
> > > transcripts, invented student accomplishments and exploited the worst
> > > stereotypes of black America
> > > <
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__p.nytimes.com_email_re-3Flocation-3DpMJKdIFVI6pghfX2HXfSzxRpdoyDWYNWuWr9t_FYfi7Pbcgy-2BRdIKQMy92vRGnAsnc59Sb4RPqeK5m3DMVZtkH8T_iZV7tK2yG31j3AJwpDFcS8Tr_jnxcDl0ngi4EHXhKw_L7u26I-2BxN1Z8juZ13Upti3q2ujunOnqxZl3YOy0-3D-26campaign-5Fid-3D57-26instance-5Fid-3D5823-26segment-5Fid-3D8223-26user-5Fid-3Da908a479818f024d9e05edf3ee8eded0-26regi-5Fid-3D5433534720181130&d=DwIFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v2Wtu7DQZxSBMSJv-oEMNg&m=fP_-WL58xh0nPJV_0xjZlHDU9WJbWsIwC5lawyyryLg&s=9XnOi64g-IBxi-jNVflTm5ykTZCyXCNRVaWXyWtYBRk&e=
> > >.
> > >
> > >
> > > “I was just a small piece in a whole fathom of lies,” one former
> student
> > > said.
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_2018_11_30_us_tm-2Dlandry-2Dcollege-2Dprep-2Dblack-2Dstudents.html-3Femc-3Dedit-5Fne-5F20181130-26nl-3Devening-2Dbriefing-26nlid-3D5433534720181130-26te-3D1&d=DwIFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v2Wtu7DQZxSBMSJv-oEMNg&m=fP_-WL58xh0nPJV_0xjZlHDU9WJbWsIwC5lawyyryLg&s=euXGWOouwV-coIp1AYAKY6HKp1rV6zB-EsxY-8L9E4U&e=
> > >
> > > "Fabric of lies" maybe?
> > > --
> > >
> > > a
> > >
> > > Andy Bach,
> > > afbach at gmail.com
> > > 608 658-1890 cell
> > > 608 261-5738 wk
> > >
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> a
>
> Andy Bach,
> afbach at gmail.com
> 608 658-1890 cell
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-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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