Re: songs of innocence, how are ye?

Very funny, Diego :). Too bad Blake wasn't a 20th cent. author :).

So Satan has crooked teeth?

Jim

PS Checking the OED (not a perfect resource, I'm learning, but the best
I have right now), "brace" (as a noun) in Blake's day could refer to the
portion of a suit of armor covering the arm, a piece of timber used to
strengthen a structure of a building (so by extension, and thing which
imparts rigidity -- which is the meaning I lean toward, since it's set
in opposition to "relaxes"), a pair of dogs, game, persons (in a
derogatory sense), etc.

I won't go into the meaning of the verb form.

> If you ever wore those little metal demons in your teeth, you
> know that the day they were painfully adjusted you spent a
> couple of hours saying "Damn braces!" and a few more
> feeling blessed when tension relaxed.
>
> Kids, beware of that torture for you good. No one expects
> the Spanish Orthodontist.
>
> Saludos,
> Diego D.
>

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