That that and other problems

[Stan Sotic]

 Some little worries...

[a-and]  Is this two syllables, staccato, Jimmy Stewart sincere, or is
it one long sly elided "Outstanding! A-and... they are mild" entree to
otherness?

[that] Is this just a TRP-personal tic?  It seems to increase in
frequency with proximity to Slothrop.  Sometimes it's used when "this"
would seem more appropriate.  Are we supposed tho hear, irony through
inversion, echoes of _tat tvam asi_?  Or is it an image of an actual
dialect usage like "like" (or, like that "like"), vestige of an other
era or locale?

[the noun as adjective] Not so frequent as 'that' but it puts a riffle
in the stream.  Again, is this normal usage somewhere somewhen or is
it Fraught?

And, oh yeah,

Henry M in a brown study Re:Sad tunes (was I knew that):

>Yeah. Gymnopadies. My ex-wife (not the woman whose absence 
>began this wallow) used to play the Gymnopadies.

Now that _is_ sad.  Coming off back shifts, that was the most erotic
music this side of Delius.  Lullaby for noontide lovers.

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