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Re: The "If you call me insane again..." page, at long last!

From:Dan Seriff <microtonal@...>
Date:Monday, July 30, 2001, 14:19
John Cowan wrote:
> > Henrik Theiling scripsit: > > > ... das andere Auge ... > > > > Sorry! :-) > > "andere Auge aus": nice. > > > But anyway: why `*other* eye'? It sounds a bit strange. Where's that > > from in the first place? > > I'm no authority on this sentence, but I think the implication is that > you have already called me crazy once, and I bit off one eye, and > now I'm warning you that it can happen again.
Exactly so. I find that so much is left unsaid in this sentence to be the most amusing part.
> -- > John Cowan cowan@ccil.org > One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore > --Douglas Hofstadter
-- Daniel Seriff microtonal@sericap.com http://members.tripod.com/microtonal Honesty means never having to say "Please don't flush me down the toilet!" - Bob the Dinosaur Half of America believes homosexuality is wrong...the same percentage believes that Socrates was a great Indian chief.