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Subject:
Sentence in The Mysterious Stranger
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"Christopher D. Morris" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:25:35 -0400
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To the Twain list,

In Chapter 26 of The Mysterious Stranger, # 44 in the guise of "Cunnel
Bludso's nigger" says to August-

       "Now den, Misto' Johnsing, how does yo' corporsosity seem to
segashuate!"

Has anyone read a plausible gloss of this sentence? (It's on page 137 of
the California edition.)

--Christopher Morris

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