AtDTDA: 19 Puns on the word is [538]

kelber at mindspring.com kelber at mindspring.com
Fri Oct 12 11:57:11 CDT 2007


-----Original Message-----
>From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net

>
>There's the echo of observed [observer observing observer observing] 'puns on
>the word 'is' '.


No one put it better than Bill Clinton:

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true."



Laura



More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list