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butatmyback

R But at my back ...

An ironic distortion of Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", lines 21-22: "But at my back I always hear/ Time's wingèd chariots hurrying near. Cf. also l. 196 (NA)

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Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress" →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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