[lit-ideas] Re: Another Bush failure?

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:46:07 -0500

CK:

ck: That's a play, all righty. I assumed Eric was fooling around--Ubi, as in more than one Ubu, ubiquitous, multiples rois, etc.

I wondered if he weren't playing on "ubi" as the Latin word for 'where', playing as in the motto: "Semper ubi, sub ubi." -- translated "always wear underwear". But I couldn't make it work.

Mike Geary




----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Kirschenbaum" <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:39 PM
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Isn't it "Ubu Roi"? The play by Alfred Jarry. 


Carol



----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Another Bush failure?


EY:
My inner adult thinks you get your mixed metaphors from Ubi Roi.

Isn't it "Ubu Roi"? The play by Alfred Jarry. One of my favorite of favorites. Or is there also an Ubi Roi?


Mike Geary



----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:22 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Another Bush failure?


Irene: Rather than pass the hot potato of self-hatred onto others, like all the other sheep do ...



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