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   From: rimagen@toast.net   
      
   On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:59:22 -0400, Bill O'Meally wrote:   
      
   > On 2020-06-01 06:40:30 +0000, Faux Dameron said:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 31 May 2020 16:45:56 -0400, Bill O'Meally wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "... saw the Lewises and C.W. (White Horse) for 1/2 hour; mowed three   
   >>> lawns... Grr! The fourth lawn will have to wait." ibid, #63,  p. 74.   
   >>   
   >> The ordinariness of it all makes me smile. It's too easy to put men like   
   >> this on a pedestal above common drudgery. Do you suppose "C.W." is   
   >> Charles Williams?   
   >   
   > Yes, I was snickering as I kept coming across these lawnmowing   
   > references, possibly laughing out loud at the "Grr!". :-) Hence my   
   > humerous (in my mind) subject line. CW is definitely Charles Williams.   
      
   Hm. That does add a personal meaning to the line "And no one was ill,   
   and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.",   
   doesn't it?   
      
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