[Ads-l] background of a quote

[Ben Zimmer]

Another variation on the theme: "Love will get you through times of no sex
better than sex will get you through times of no love," from Tom Rapp's
song "Love/Sex" (on his 1973 album "Sunforest").

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 9:09 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> "Love will get you through times of no money better than money will get you
> through times of no love"
>
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 8:55 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > But notice the swapping of order /superiority between the two quotations.
> >
> > Mark A. Mandel
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 8:40 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Sometime before 1984, Jerry Pournelle (an SF author who was a NYT
> > > bestseller but never won a Hugo award) said "Money will get you through
> > > times of no Hugos better than Hugos will get you through times of no
> > money."
> > >
> > > He was preceded by cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, whose character
> > > Freewheelin' Franklin Freak (of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) said
> > > "Grass will carry you through times of no money better than money will
> > > carry you through times of no grass." (1969 or before) (usually quoted
> as
> > > "dope will get you through  . . .")
> > >
> > > Is the Dope/grass version the ur-text?  or are they both riffing off
> > > something earlier, of which I am not aware?
> > >
>

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