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From: "Geoffrey Gaskell" <ggaskell@paradise.net.nz>
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Subject: RE: I.A. Richards, Jacques Barzun, & ECK (to say nothing of the dog)
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JMP:

>linguistics. His anthology of opinions regarding linguistics may
>contain one name or ten thousand without having any significant
>impact:

Indeed how fortunate that this was simply a "shower of words" rather than a
shower of meteors & meteorites & comet fragments!

OTOH perhaps those for whom "opinions" and "incantation" suffice see a
different earth; one with a surface resembling the dark side of the moon.

Geoffrey Gaskell
"Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein" [Richard III]

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