From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Nov 20 1999 - 13:11:59 MST
At 05:16 PM 19/11/99 -0500, Sean wrote:
>> In one of Piers Anthony's books a
>> character explained, "if it's not your birthday, it is your unbirthday!"
>This originally comes from "Alice in Wonderland", during the Tea Party
sequence
>with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, in which they were having an
unbirthday
>party. Piers Anthony seems to have liffted it for his own purposes.
Lewis Carroll, as a playful logician, might have smiled at this happy typo.
So the (appallingly) punnish Mr Anthony lifted it if and only if it suited
his own purposes? Mais oui!
Damien Broderick
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