Kay Schluehr wrote: > > This unexpected attack in his rear frightened him so much, that he > leaped forward with all his might: the horse's carcase dropped on the > ground, but in his place the wolf was in the harness, and I on my part > whipping him continually: we both arrived in full career safe at St. > Petersburg, contrary to our respective expectations, and very much to > the astonishment of the spectators." > > http://bulfinch.englishatheist.org/baron/Baron.html
in order, I presume, to "counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor" http://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book1.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
