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Wed, 1 Feb 1995 11:20:04 -0500
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Indeed most interesting you were able to pull that off at light speed,
however, you might need to pull off on a berm and put the flashers on
for just awhile.  Interesting use of the same phrase, but more
interesting that you apply it out of context to another work, as if a
light speed CD-Rom was Twain's intentional application of the phrase.

If Twain was to overlay one use on the other, it might be best to
consider the print layout from a structuralist's template in see what
eyes are meant to see on these two pages of original manuscript rather
than to expect this relationship is one which applies across contexts
in any other form.

Most notable to me is the relationship of this Lilliputian canon King
figure with the Goethe Satan character.  Perhaps this swings from your
beams in a different manner when you take context, rather than
CD-Rom'ing the whole world over hits, as a better criterion for
analogy?

Mike Koopman

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