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I remember finding this book years ago that had the most gruesome explications of nursery rhymes. For this one it said that he was little boy blue because he was dead and his face had turned blue, and that "asleep" was just a euphamism for dead. Nasty little book.
Adam
John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> wrote:
Christian Thalmann scripsit:
> Say, is "blue" meant literally or in the sense of "sad"?
Well, in the pictures I saw as a child, he was dressed in blue, but of
course that is only an artistic interpretation.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@hidden.email
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
--_The Hobbit_
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