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A rose is a rose by any other name

Posted: January 4, 2019 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |Leave a comment

This is a nice literary malaphor, uttered on the MSNBC show Hard Ball .  It is a congruent conflation of Shakespeare’s “A rose by any other name” and  Gertrude Stein’s sentence “a rose is a rose is a rose”, both interpreted as meaning things are what they are.  A big thanks to Mike Kovacs for hearing this conflation of two famous lines in literature.

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