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#105509 06/12/03 09:51 PM
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I cannot grasp the meaning of the word "cant" in this sentence from "Innocents Abroad". Twain is talking about the joy of discovery --- "Daguerre, when he commanded the sun, riding in the zenith, to print the landscape upon his insignifi cant silvered plate, and
he obeyed; "


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> to print the landscape upon his insignifi cant silvered plate, and he obeyed; "


You jest, surely? It must be a simple insertion of an extraneous space, unless you would care to explain what the word insignifi means.


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Dear sjm: My vision problem screwed me again. If I perpetrate a jest, I'll try to do better than that. Sorry.



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