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In a message dated 2/22/2010 6:43:04 AM Central Standard Time,
jansy@AETERN.US writes:
> I just discovered (or had read it before, but without registering it)
> that Wilson's inspiration for "amphisbaenic" might have derived from Alexander
> Pope's Dunciad: ( a new problem now for the Kinbote/Wilson hunch!)
> The lines in question are: "Thus Amphisbaena (I have read)
> At either end assails;
> None knows which leads, or which is
> led,
> For both Heads are but Tails."
>
>
This may well be by Pope, but it cannot be from The Dunciad, which is
written in heroic couplets, not quatrains.
RSG
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jansy@AETERN.US writes:
> I just discovered (or had read it before, but without registering it)
> that Wilson's inspiration for "amphisbaenic" might have derived from Alexander
> Pope's Dunciad: ( a new problem now for the Kinbote/Wilson hunch!)
> The lines in question are: "Thus Amphisbaena (I have read)
> At either end assails;
> None knows which leads, or which is
> led,
> For both Heads are but Tails."
>
>
This may well be by Pope, but it cannot be from The Dunciad, which is
written in heroic couplets, not quatrains.
RSG
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