"Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans
everything." is Jacques's description of the seventh age of man in Shakespeare's
"As You Like It". Surely others will answer the question below. Note that
Jacques's fourth "sans" is "everything" and Kinbote's fourth is "anything but
his art". What a difference!
As for the h-sounds, I have no idea. Four-H club? I
think that those are Head, Heart, Hands, Health, not very likely
familiar in an academic atmosphere. But successive h-sounds are pretty
common, say, "He who has held a hundred hearts in his hand, who has
heard hungry hounds howl..."
Mary Krimmel
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. . .* the insistent
"h-sounds" and the three "sans" that seem so familiar... where do
they come from?. .
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