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- From: peter.churchill@rose.com (peter churchill)
- Subject: Re: quite unique
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:39:14 GMT
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- Date Entered: 11-16-92 13:34
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- microsoc@black.ox.ac.uk (Marc B.A. Read) firing one into the Jolly
- Hotdog (Lustig-Weiner) bunfest asks:
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- | Roger -
- |
- | You aren't related to Humpty Dumpty, by any chance, are you?
- |
- | Yours,
- |
- | Marc
- |
- | PS I haven't got my copy of Alice with me at the moment; perhaps someone
- | would care to post the quotation that I'm thinking of...
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- If you were to find Humpty Dumpty in your copy of Alice it would
- indeed be unique -- even singular.
-
- Humpty and Alice hang out in "Through the Looking-Glass" where there
- is a reply to an objection from Alice : '...When _I_ use a word,'
- Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I
- choose it to mean, --neither more nor less.'
-
- Regards: *PC* <peter.Churchill@rose.com> -- just far enough from
- Toronto
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