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Jussi Pelkonen
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:58 pm
Post subject: Q: "to make a book with two covers" |
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Could somebody please help me. I don't have the faintest idea about the true
meaning of the mentioned idiom. Well, okay - I guess it is either sexual or
drug related, but that's all. I would be very happy, if someone could
enlighten the issue a bit.
Here is an excerpt of the text in question (some of you know the book, I'm
sure):
"Hippies, the headmaster thought, seeing a pair of fans making 'the book
with two covers' in the grass. Drug addicts. D&D players. He'd turn them all
to cinders if he could,..."
Thanks in advance!
J.P.
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Martin Ambuhl
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:33 pm
Post subject: Re: Q: "to make a book with two covers" |
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Jussi Pelkonen wrote:
| Quote: | ...I don't have the faintest idea about the true
meaning of the mentioned idiom.
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For those not happy with having content stuck in the almost always
unuseful subject header, 'the mentioned idiom' means 'to make a book
with two covers.'
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| Quote: | "Hippies, the headmaster thought, seeing a pair of fans making 'the book
with two covers' in the grass. Drug addicts. D&D players. He'd turn them all
to cinders if he could,..."
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The more normal phrase, and it's a trite one, is 'making the beast with
two backs.' I'm sure you can work it out. |
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Alan Jones
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:10 am
Post subject: Re: Q: "to make a book with two covers" |
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"Martin Ambuhl" <mambuhl@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:2m4vqgFig41qU1@uni-berlin.de...
| Quote: | Jussi Pelkonen wrote:
...I don't have the faintest idea about the true
meaning of the mentioned idiom.
For those not happy with having content stuck in the almost always
unuseful subject header, 'the mentioned idiom' means 'to make a book
with two covers.'
[...]
"Hippies, the headmaster thought, seeing a pair of fans making 'the book
with two covers' in the grass. Drug addicts. D&D players. He'd turn them
all
to cinders if he could,..."
The more normal phrase, and it's a trite one, is 'making the beast with
two backs.' I'm sure you can work it out.
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But don't all books have two covers?
Who wrote this? I note it's the narrator's direct comment, not a quotation
or implicit quotation of what the headmaster said or thought, and the
quotation marks imply that the narrator isn't inventing the expression
himself but thinks he's seen it somewhere else. Do we have an "unreliable
narrator" here, or an unreliable author?
Alan Jones.
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Donna Richoux
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:19 am
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Alan Jones <atj@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | "Martin Ambuhl" <mambuhl@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:2m4vqgFig41qU1@uni-berlin.de...
Jussi Pelkonen wrote:
...I don't have the faintest idea about the true
meaning of the mentioned idiom.
For those not happy with having content stuck in the almost always
unuseful subject header, 'the mentioned idiom' means 'to make a book
with two covers.'
[...]
"Hippies, the headmaster thought, seeing a pair of fans making 'the book
with two covers' in the grass. Drug addicts. D&D players. He'd turn them
all
to cinders if he could,..."
The more normal phrase, and it's a trite one, is 'making the beast with
two backs.' I'm sure you can work it out.
But don't all books have two covers?
Who wrote this? I note it's the narrator's direct comment, not a quotation
or implicit quotation of what the headmaster said or thought, and the
quotation marks imply that the narrator isn't inventing the expression
himself but thinks he's seen it somewhere else. Do we have an "unreliable
narrator" here, or an unreliable author?
It happens to be on-line (I was looking to see if anyone used to the |
phrase other than literally), and do you know what this is from?
"Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody"!
The schoolmaster was Bumblemore. Enough?
Here's the URL:
http://www.barrytrotter.com/BarryTrotterChapter1.pdf
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Best -- Donna Richoux |
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Phil C.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:25 am
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:10:24 GMT, "Alan Jones" <atj@blueyonder.co.uk>
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"Martin Ambuhl" <mambuhl@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:2m4vqgFig41qU1@uni-berlin.de...
Jussi Pelkonen wrote:
...I don't have the faintest idea about the true
meaning of the mentioned idiom.
For those not happy with having content stuck in the almost always
unuseful subject header, 'the mentioned idiom' means 'to make a book
with two covers.'
[...]
"Hippies, the headmaster thought, seeing a pair of fans making 'the book
with two covers' in the grass. Drug addicts. D&D players. He'd turn them
all
to cinders if he could,..."
The more normal phrase, and it's a trite one, is 'making the beast with
two backs.' I'm sure you can work it out.
But don't all books have two covers?
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Yes... but then pigs have two backs. Long back and short back.
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Phil C. |
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