Re: "exactly" or "exackitickly"? [was: Re: "(non)denumerably infinite" [was: <other things>]]
- From: Don Aitken <don-aitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:18:55 +0000
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:06:51 GMT, Bob Cunningham
<exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:05:33 -0500, Robert Lieblich
><r_s_lieblich@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>[...]
>
>> A caterpillar. Alice: "Three inches is such a wretched height to be."
>> Caterpillar (drawing self up quite huffily (in Disney version)): "I am
>> *exactly* three inches tall."
>
>Did it say "exactly" or "exackitickly"? Somebody or
>something said "exackitickly" if I remember right.
>
>But I suppose I could be thinking of some other book, like
>_Poppy Ott and His Seven-Leargue Stilts_.
>
It didn't say either in the book:
'"It is a very good height indeed!", said the Caterpillar angrily,
rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches
high).'
But that wouldn't have worked on screen.
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