(np) the pleasure of reading weird locutions

[Mark Kohut]

Early draft of that famous line:

And it wasn’t a hard rain that was gonna fall, but “And it’s a hard, It’s a
hard, It’s a hard rain must fall.”

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 11:38 PM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> In an older book, seeing “must” used as the simple past tense of “must.”
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> Even to the point of years later remembering the quiet excitement of adding
> it to one’s word hoard,  long after forgetting the book it was in.
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> Some kind of scene like “there was no road, so they must travel a winding
> path,” or “there were no eggs, so they must breakfast on porridge.”
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> Lots of weird locutions in M&D but not that, iirc.
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