Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for May 07, 2010

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    pouncingtiger  over 14 years ago

    I’m Dunne, John. (I’m done (with my list), John.)

    For the ones who didn’t know, John Dunne wrote the poem in the beginning of For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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    lewisbower  over 14 years ago

    The first day of Freshman English, the Prof read a sonnet by John Dunne. When asked what it meant, I showed my worth by answering “A cheap seduction.” “Young man, everything Dunne wrote was to God and nothing he wrote was cheap.” How was I to know the prof’s Doctorate was on Dunne? How was I to know I would take four more classes from him? How was I to know he would be the advisor to our anti-nuclear group (he held the wallets while we got arrested)? I shudder when I think of John Dunne.

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    Schmeezle  over 14 years ago

    It’s spelled, “Donne”, not “Dunne”. It is pronounced, “Done”, however.

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    Coyoty Premium Member over 14 years ago

    He’s not very Ernest to do it.

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    tedcoop  over 14 years ago

    Lewreader, with a pun that bad your worst reaction is to the memory of that kind of acaedmic trauma? Must have been one hell of a protest rally.

    Anyway, if the guy’s dissertation was on Donne, he obviously took Donne too seriously to see that a skilled writer can turn a psalm of praise into a tool for cheap seduction. :-)

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    Not to defend Lew, but it was spelled Dunne in LOTS ‘60’s and ‘70’s English books. My Mom taught out of them. I remember.

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    But then we aft gang aglae.

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