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Time to repeat our credo: Eschew obfuscation. May pranksters experience painful agenbite of inwit.
Subject:
today's wwftd is... agenbite of inwit
Date:
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:14:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:
wwftd master <mikef3@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
To:
wwftd minions <tsuwm@aol.com>
the worthless word for the day is: agenbite of inwit
from "The Ayenbite of Inwyt" a 14th century treatise
on the "again-biting" of the inner wit, the remorse
of conscience; borrowed by Joyce and made a part of
Leopold Blooms's character in _Ulysses_ (he used it
"at least eight times", according to Words@Random).
-tsuwm http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
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