What?
Jeffrey Meikle
meikle at mail.utexas.edu
Wed Sep 4 14:45:32 CDT 1996
Surely you jest, Don:
>"What?" is interesting. I've often quoted that line myself, and have
>heard many others use it in what has to be--often anachronistically--a cross
>reference to GR. Has anyone gone through the Nixon tapes at the National
>Archives to provide an exact citation?
Who among us hasn't said "What?"?! If Nixon never did, then he's a better
man than Georges Perec, who wrote that shaggy dog of a novel that
completely excludes the letter E (translated into English by someone who
also successfully avoided any use of E).
Jeff
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