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- From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet)
- Subject: Re: Lovely film, I cried
- Organization: the house on the corner
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:26:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.182630.22949@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan20.170008.28557@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.210928.10009@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1993Jan21.112506.16436@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Sender: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans)
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- In article <1993Jan21.112506.16436@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.210928.10009@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
- >>And a bad one, too. His scansion sucks! (No comment on what else
- >>might engage in that kind of behavior...)
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- >Eh? It's perfect: iambic tetrameter followed by iambic trimeter.
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- Perfect? PERFECT?? Yuck! Iambic pentameter, I might agree with you,
- but this mish-mash of metrical impurity?
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- >Just a minute, aren't you the person who recently claimed on soc.singles
- >that Douglas Adams invented the phrase "believe six impossible things
- >before breakfast"?
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- Nope. Uh uh. No way. Not me. I misread the verb--I thought we
- were talking about _do_ing six impossible things before breakfast.
- I wasn't thinking Red Queen, then, I was thinking Milliway's...
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