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- From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
- Subject: Re: Stark Naked
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:33:40 GMT
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- In article <1hcrknINNktd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> gxs11@po.CWRU.Edu (Gary Stonum) writes:
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- >In a previous article, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) says:
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- >>The _American Spectator_ lists as its law firm "Solitary, Poor, Nasty,
- >>Brutish and Short".
- >
- > Isn't the Spectator's a bit clumsy?
- > Especially since in Gravity's Rainbow
- >Pynchon punched it up as Salitari, Nash, De Brutus, and Short
- >(approximately: I'm too lazy to find the exact reference),
- >and he wasn't necessarily the first to coin what sounds
- >like a staple of college humor magazines, circa 1954.
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- More like a staple of English political philosophy, circa
- 1651.
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- Keith
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- Keith Morgan kamorgan@athena.mit.edu
- In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was
- preposterous and true and totally unacceptable. Edward Whittemore
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