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Did anyone see “Jeopardy”* last night?
The question was :
“Alexander Pope wrote this famous axiom in his Essay on Man:”
"_______springs eternal”
That would be “hope” of course. As Alexey Sklyarenko has pointed out many times, “hope” in Russian is “nadezshde” which is a near anagram for “Hazel Shade,” or, as John Shade puts it a “faint hope.”