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Article #1102Re: night of the iguana - excerpt
From: Theodore Hope
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 20:43
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 20:43
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In article <4764@pur-ee.UUCP> mj@pur-ee.UUCP (Slartibartfast) writes:
>
> Anyway, I looked it up, and here it is.
>
> How calmly does the orange branch
> Observe the sky begin to blanch
> Without a cry, without a prayer,
> With no betrayal of despair.
>Mark A. Johnson - Purdue University Department of Electrical Engineering
>
Strange... I could have sworn that the old man says:
How calmly does the olive branch (olive, not orange)
....
....
It could be that the old man's accent and the fact that the TV / VCR which I saw it on
was less-than hi-fi made me hear 'olive.' Has anyone out there also heard it this way?
--
Theodore Hope
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!gatech!hope From: hope@gatech.EDU (Theodore Hope) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: Re: night of the iguana - excerpt Message-ID: <4610@gatech.EDU> Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 16:43:48 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.4610 Posted: Fri Oct 3 16:43:48 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 12:33:09 EDT References: <4764@pur-ee.UUCP> Reply-To: hope@gatech.UUCP (Theodore Hope) Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta Lines: 30