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
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