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   ROBBIE to All   
   Re: MANIFESTO!   
   05 Mar 06 11:13:26   
   
   From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:CuuOf.39630$F_3.27329@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...   
   >   
   >   
   > Do you think "Ennui" might translate better as a combination   
   > of "boredom" and "spleen," in the Jonathan Swift sense of   
   > the latter? It can even mean something like "annoyance,"   
   > can't it?   
   >   
   > /M   
      
   'I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.   
   Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't - till I tell   
   you,' Humpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it   
   to mean - neither more nor less.'   
   'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many   
   different things.'   
   'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all'.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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