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#1 Pedantry for a poet

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 3:28 pm
by andrew Ivimey
You know, it occurred to me (only) a week or so ago that one goes up or down in a watchtower, not along. I suppose 'all along the battlements' doesn't scan in Bob's book! No one else, as far as I know, has ever remarked on this oddity.

#2 Re: Pedantry for a poet

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 3:36 pm
by IslandPink
That's very thought-provoking, Andrew - good point. Was it a Martello, by any chance ?
( "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.." )