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by Ashton
11/14/17 7:35:52 PM
11/14/17 7:39:22 PM
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New "le mot juste" precísamente [Ed: blongs under Rand's nonpareil phrase/bad moi.]
(phrases too..)

One wag asserts,
Flaubert spent his life agonizing over "le mot juste." Now Madame Bovary is available in 20 different crappy English translations,
so now it doesn't really make a damn bit of difference.
(but I digress and disagree, anyway.)
Collapse Edited by Ashton Nov. 14, 2017, 07:39:22 PM EST
"le mot juste" precísamente
(phrases too..)

One wag asserts,
Flaubert spent his life agonizing over "le mot juste." Now Madame Bovary is available in 20 different crappy english translations,
so now it doesn't really make a damn bit of difference.
(but I digress and disagree, anyway.)
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     Kotkin’s Stalin bio, volumes 1 & 2 - (rcareaga) - (14) - Nov. 14, 2017, 09:34:16 PM EST
         do you have a link to a point of sale? -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Nov. 12, 2017, 10:40:04 AM EST
             Denial is not a river in Brazil, if you catch my meaning. -NT - (rcareaga) - Nov. 12, 2017, 11:09:54 PM EST
         The man was evil personified. - (a6l6e6x) - (10) - Nov. 12, 2017, 01:30:14 PM EST
             The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, nothing more -NT - (drook) - (2) - Nov. 12, 2017, 05:16:46 PM EST
                 But not what Radio Moscow was saying at the time. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Nov. 13, 2017, 09:20:19 AM EST
                     Fake news! -NT - (drook) - Nov. 13, 2017, 09:24:54 AM EST
             Pole-axed - (rcareaga) - Nov. 12, 2017, 11:15:37 PM EST
             Some of the reverence Stalin still enjoys, while I disagree whole-heartedly, I understand. - (mmoffitt) - (5) - Nov. 13, 2017, 12:34:20 PM EST
                 Stalinist cost-benefit - (rcareaga) - (4) - Nov. 13, 2017, 06:27:46 PM EST
                     He had his breakdown. - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - Nov. 13, 2017, 11:27:09 PM EST
                         I know that story - (rcareaga) - Nov. 14, 2017, 12:30:20 AM EST
                         "le mot juste" precísamente [Ed: blongs under Rand's nonpareil phrase/bad moi.] - (Ashton) - Nov. 14, 2017, 07:39:22 PM EST
                     A brilliant description: "appalled respect." Exactly my sense of the man. -NT - (mmoffitt) - Nov. 14, 2017, 08:18:53 AM EST
         a prophecy - (rcareaga) - Nov. 13, 2017, 07:03:08 PM EST

And she wasn't kidding, either, 'cause in came the biggest, meanest looking haddock I'd ever seen come down the pike. He was covered with mussels.
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