Yeah, I understood where it came from, Martin, but was wondering HOW it
came from that pre-text.
And then how it came to caleb...
Doug
On 7-Jul-06, at 9:16 AM, MJ Walker wrote:
> It actually looks like text from *David Copperfield* by Dickens that
> has been jumbled in the way that sometimes happens when transferring
> text for reasons that are beyond this technical idiot (OK, no
> comments, please...).
> mj
>
> Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> but where did you find this, exactly, Caleb? I do get sent things
>> like the other one, never that one though, & invitations to send
>> money, but this looks like a wonky translation...?
>>
>> Wonderfully wonky, of course....
>>
>> Doug
>> On 6-Jul-06, at 6:37 PM, Caleb Cluff wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Max, don't you love them? I found this... Rather it found me of
>>> course... But the last line!!!
>>>
>>>
>>> idea of what I want to say, beyond such as may be comprehended in
>>> yourself so much on your honour and all the rest of it, to sneak
>>> Jorkins, there was no difficulty about it. I took that
>>> as he had been accustomed to do when he enjoyed himself in the get
>>> the
>>> flower-pot now, I think I should like it being Sophys,
>>> Hes a young man, sure? said the portentous waiter, fixing his I
>>> could,
>>> to endeavour to get some command of himself. He replied,
>>> he forced his confidence upon me, expressly to make me miserable,
>>> family
>>> down to the latest posterity. As to Mrs. Micawber, I dont
>>> liberty of mentioning that Copperfield has noticed it too. they were
>>> going five hundred thousand miles, I should offer a few
>>> thoughtfully, as who should say, Ye Mayflies, enjoy your brief I know
>>> that James Steerforth, she said, with her hand on her
>>> I could, to endeavour to get some command of himself. He replied, a
>>> pernicious absurdity, that but for its being squeezed away in a
>>> full-sized woman, said the little creature, touching me as into a
>>> bath,
>>> with the tea-things. The ravages committed by this
>>> We should not have been much discomposed, I dare say, by the going to
>>> have any knockings on the head in THIS family, if you
>>> my aunt, if he had as many lives as a cat, and was on the point of
>>> single moment. So let us always do a kindness, and be
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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>
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>
>
> I start to spin the tale
> you complain of my dic/
> tion
>
> Tom Verlaine
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>
Douglas Barbour
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