V2, Chap 15 (Sahha), I, p 461 - "Mene, mene tekel, upharsin"
Michael Bailey
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Wed Feb 9 08:17:13 CST 2011
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then there's the Nabokov story set in Berlin, with a character named
Menetek el Upharsin - think he's supposed to be Arabian...
and of course one stuck in compulsive punning mode might come up with
something like "weighed and found wanton"
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"the life of a person is worth more than the history of a country" -
Carlos Fuentes (_The Old Gringo_)
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