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4.5.11

Malapropism

Name us
a famous poet --- Go on. Do it.
e.e. cummings doesn't count.
Leave Eliot out of it --- a living one
or it's like they said:
call no man famous
until he's dead.

17.1.11

vice versa

Casting swine before pearls is also mistaken:
for all their shine,
pearls have no use for bacon.