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Re: TT-3: shooting drawers with pencils and pawns (ADA) (fwd)
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------------------ 'a very plain, round ... old pencil'
Carpenters use a specialised sort of pencil, not round
at all, but flat; I'm surprised VN didn't know this, if
indeed he didn't.
'rodlet'
VN uses the suffix -let a lot to coin words of his own;
I'll be saying something more about this presently.
'Alas, the solid pencil itself as fingered briefly by Hugh
Person still somehow eludes us! But *he* won't, oh no.'
I'd be interested to hear what anyone else makes of this;
my own understanding of it is that 'they' can't manipulate
physical objects. That Hugh won't 'elude' them, then, makes
them sound oddly sinister.
--Peter Hayes
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D. Barton Johnson
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Carpenters use a specialised sort of pencil, not round
at all, but flat; I'm surprised VN didn't know this, if
indeed he didn't.
'rodlet'
VN uses the suffix -let a lot to coin words of his own;
I'll be saying something more about this presently.
'Alas, the solid pencil itself as fingered briefly by Hugh
Person still somehow eludes us! But *he* won't, oh no.'
I'd be interested to hear what anyone else makes of this;
my own understanding of it is that 'they' can't manipulate
physical objects. That Hugh won't 'elude' them, then, makes
them sound oddly sinister.
--Peter Hayes
---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L