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arcana imperii :: the book of j

1.4.04

«venez souper à sans-souci»

«it happens that i had recently read an article on wordplay in the smithsonian magazine in which the author asserted that some puckish* soul had once sent a letter addressed, with playful ambiguity, to

HILL
JOHN
MASS


and it had gotten there after the postal authorities had worked out that it was to be read as 'john underhill, andover, mass.' (get it?)»
~bill bryson, i'm a stranger here myself


*puckish \PUHK-ish\, adjective: whimsical; mischievous; impish.
via word of the day @ dictionary.com.