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From: Alfred M Kriman <akriman@darwin.helios.nd.edu>
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To: classics@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Re: Professor Lupher's barb]

Eric Laupot wrote
....
> What Mr. Glueck wrote in his message of 12/2 was 
> that your "outraged slings and arrows" were 
the bard does a spinning handstand in his grave
> "fortuitous," by which I agree with you that he 
> probably meant "gratuitous," i.e., unwarranted. This 
> hardly sounds like an endorsement of your views, so 
> let's not include him as your ally here (in fact, I 
****> admit that on account of Mr. Glueck's gratuitous 
> choice of "fortuitous," I misinterpreted his earlier 
> message, for which I apologize; Mr. Glueck's motives 
> in his message of 12/2 were in fact honest and 
> straightforward).
....

At ****, I urge that "unfortunate" would be more felicitous than
"gratuitous," and make more felicitous than gratuitous oxymorons.

Yours,
Rita von Carruthers Pech
Wiesbaden Office Supplies

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