Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 15 Dec 1993 08:19:01 -0500 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 15 Dec 1993 07:53:23 -0500 Message-Id: <199312151253.AA02638@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7926; Wed, 15 Dec 93 08:15:46 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 5871; Wed, 15 Dec 93 08:17:25 EDT Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 13:14:52 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: "On the job" X-To: lojban@cuvma.BITNET To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Wed Dec 15 13:14:52 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Not long back the chatter digressed from Lojban to discuss the meaning of the briticism "on the job". I supplement that thread with the following illustrative quotation from the late (and so far far far too inadequately mourned by the curmudgeonly public) Anthony Burgess: "And she's rather taken to him, has she?" Roper began to tremble. "Taken to him! That's good, that is. I came home one night, late again, very tired, and you know what I found?" "You tell me." "On the job." Roper's voice rose. His hands clenched and un- clenched. They seized the sparkling hock and poured a sizeable tremulous measure. Then, panting, he said, loudly so that people looked at him, "On the bloody job. I saw them. His big bloody muscles all working away at it, enjoying it, and she was there under- neath him crying out _Schnell schnell schnell_." The solitary waiter, a German took this for a summons and started to come too. I waved him away. - _Tremor of intent_. Penguin 1969 [1966]. pp 34-5. ---- And