Re: Telco Control Addiction

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

Too subtle for my own good. I was teasing Harry (I knew which
equivocation Harry meant). The poet was Woody Guthrie.


On Dec 8, at 2:59 PM, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> David Auerbach wrote:
> > "Some will rob you with a six-gun, others with a fountain pen"
> > (in the poet's immortal words).
> > But you're right. "highway robbery" *is* equivocal. It could mean
> > *robbery on highway* or *robbery of the highway*.
> I don't think that's what Harry meant by equivocation. And of course
> I was using "highway robbery" in its traditional sense: robbery on
> the [king's] highway--so that it was a higher-level crime than, say,
> robbing some poor peasant's orchard. But under modern conditions,
> the other meaning could well apply.
> Which poet was that? I was trying to work in C.S. Lewis's line about
> "Who cares what color shirt/ [or suit] The murdering Party
> wears" (written during the 30s, in rebuke to Roy Campbell's flirting
> with fascism).
>
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> priscameg@xxxxxxxx




David Auerbach
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