everybody is coughing, and nobody has any money

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everybody is coughing, and nobody has any money

This comment on MetaFilter has me totally rolling. Four years down the drain because my BA in English Lit. can be pretty much summed up thusly:

Applemeat, English major, sums up 19th century literature for you:
A guy’s upset because his sister’s not a virgin anymore; somebody gets run over by a buggy; everybody is coughing, and nobody has any money.

posted by applemeat at 2:34 PM on July 28

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