Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism

K. has been reading a lot of Little Dorrit aloud. This is only his second time through. Could this have marked the first appearance of "prunes and prism[s]"? Even though in Dorrit it's prism singular, elsewhere the expression always seems to be prunes and prisms plural.

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