Dear Alexey,

Wonderful! a possible triple!!!  The eyedropper was used to administer the poison, you know. I don't recall who the eavesdropper was -- do you?

Carolyn


On May 1, 2009, at 12:55 AM, Alexey Sklyarenko wrote:

CK: Similar play in Ada: ewedropper as a pun on eyedropper
 
Dear Carolyn,
 
I thought that "a dripping ewes-dropper in a dream" (ADA, Part Two, ch. 5) was a pun on eavesdropper.
 
Alexey
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