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From: "Michael Hendry" <curculio@glasscity.net>
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Subject: Re: The Eternal Rabbit
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:39:43 -0500
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And speaking of autopsies, wasn't "autophagy" listed as the cause of death
on Erysichthon's?

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----- Original Message -----
From: Arthur Pomeroy <Arthur.Pomeroy@vuw.ac.nz>
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Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: The Eternal Rabbit


> >
> >>Also, a rabbit (cuniculus) is not quite the same thing as a hare
(lepus),
> >>which makes some of DL's connections even more fanciful than they would
be
> >>otherwise.
> >
> >Picky picky. I suppose that you are the kind of pedant who distinguishes
> >between frogs and toads.
> >
> >David Lupher
>
> This has good classical precedent: Polybius calls Timaeus a bonehead
> for thinking that there are hares on Corsica; they may look like
> hares from a distance (viewed from Sicily?), but close-up, these are
> rabbits and completely different in appearance and taste (12.3.7-10).
>
> Which proves that a good historian needs not only autopsy, but
> autophagy as well.
>
> Art Pomeroy
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