Re: colorless green ideas

--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 8, 2004, at 09:21 AM, Tristan
> McLeay wrote:
<snip>
>
> Quite so - and it strikes me that Vesuvius was
> sleeping pretty furiously
> in the years leading up 79 CE - if only the people
> of Pompeii hadn't been
> lulled into the idea that it was sleeping
> peacefully!
Anyone in the midst of an angry nightmare, tossing and
turning and mumbling angrily in his sleep could
certainly be said to be sleeping furiously.

--gary

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