[lit-ideas] Re: Brain yoga
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 17:30:49 -0700
on 5/3/05 10:28 AM, Mirembe Nantongo at nantongo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
, and so he got her. He got all of her, except the
> innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave
> up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can
> picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door."
>
> from _Peter Pan_ by J.M. Barrie
>
O, he's jist a perfect darlin'! a sweet barley sugar doodle o'delight!
James Smith, "Archy and Bess," from The Glasgow Weekly Mail, December 1875,
quoted in William Donaldson, "The Language of the People" (1989)
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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