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I DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!
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Mr Pumpov
Aug 15, 2012, 9:36:33 AM8/15/12
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When you don't understand something can you say in wrath:
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND it! GOD, KILL ME! DEVIL, DAMN ME!"
Or maybe there are some more rich expressions?
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Mr. Pumpov
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND it! GOD, KILL ME! DEVIL, DAMN ME!"
Or maybe there are some more rich expressions?
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Mr. Pumpov
Don Phillipson
Aug 15, 2012, 3:42:46 PM8/15/12
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"Mr Pumpov" <dimap...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> When you don't understand something can you say in wrath:
> "I DON'T UNDERSTAND it! GOD, KILL ME! DEVIL, DAMN ME!"
>
> Or maybe there are some more rich expressions?
The books on our shelves offer plenty of examples of frustration
at incomprehension, sometimes voiced as an appeal to God or
the Devil -- but none comes to mind that invokes both at the
same time, combined with an invitation to death or damnation.
There seems something Catholic and perhaps Irish about this
inquiry. If looking for examples in this vein, I should start with
Flann O'Brien and James Joyce. (Drink helps voice frustration,
and these authors describe plenty of drunks.)
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
news:20120815173633.40e1...@gmail.com...
> When you don't understand something can you say in wrath:
> "I DON'T UNDERSTAND it! GOD, KILL ME! DEVIL, DAMN ME!"
>
> Or maybe there are some more rich expressions?
at incomprehension, sometimes voiced as an appeal to God or
the Devil -- but none comes to mind that invokes both at the
same time, combined with an invitation to death or damnation.
There seems something Catholic and perhaps Irish about this
inquiry. If looking for examples in this vein, I should start with
Flann O'Brien and James Joyce. (Drink helps voice frustration,
and these authors describe plenty of drunks.)
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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