aliterature
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 20:02:51 -0400
Luke:
> What's the typo?
>
> "Alliterate" means one does not read; "illiterate" means one can't read.
> According to Benjamin Franklin, it's just as bad to be the former.
"Alliterate" is a verb. Used as an adjective, it becomes
"alliterative," and it describes words that alliterate. The L's in
"alliterate" and "dullard" are alliterative, as are the D's in
"dullard." "Aliterate," with one L, is not an English word, though it
might be used to connote "non" instead of "il" with the word "literate."
Ben Franklin is the Beaver Cleaver of political autobiographers. Too
smarmy to be trusted.
Me:
> > I wondner whether the exchange is represented in its entirety.
Luke:
> Yes, it is.
I thought there might be other letters from the legal people--perhaps
ones that, for whatever reason, you had to leave out of the exchange.
Portions of your second letter seem to suggest that you specifically
heard that Salinger himself wanted the Holden Server shut down, but the
brief interdiction from Byrne doesn't exactly say so. Was there not
even so much as an acknowledgment of your second letter? Sort of makes
the Ober side even more pathetic.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu