how do you think the cloud in trousers felt?
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:32 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> We were talking to a venerable literary lady yesterday and she recalled
> how
> when William Empson was once staying with her and her husband he came
> downstairs evidently agitated and brandishing a pair of scissors,
> announcing
> that he was unable to escape from his trousers. He'd been trying without
> success to cut his way out. The famously eccentric author of 'Seven Types
> of
> Ambiguity' had been temporarily deserted by the conceptual constructs
> 'buttons' and 'how to undo them'.
>
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All best,
Catherine Daly
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