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From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
To: "Classics List" <classics@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Tuckerman?
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> Yet I have to admit that
>the competition was not exactly stiff, apart from Melville in a few
>passages in "Clarel."  (Barbaric yawpsters need not apply.)

Let's have a worst Tuckerman line contest - I nominate:

remnants of rain, and droppings of decay


Enough said. 


P. T. Rourke
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