piece of work about nothing
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ex Class 73, John Macdonald, A Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary, Numerically Arranged on a Very Comprehensive Scale, and calculated to express… (Whitehall, 1817)
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About, thinking about about —...I will try to face the danger I see by refraining from spreading my ideas about literary matters, by not talking
about
, so as to avoid augmenting the chatter with further chatter.
Ingeborg Bachmann to Paul Celan, Uetikon am See, 5 August 1959, in their Correspondence (Seagull Books, 2010)
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18 November 2012
tags: about; lexicon; nothing; philosophize, to; Ingeborg Bachmann; John Macdonald (1817)