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"It may have been . . .": Answering the question "What broke the camel's back?" -- that is, what was the cause of Tim Finnegan's fall from his ladder, and what caused the Temple to fall or the Tower of Babble to collapse (coming after a long section about Finnegan's role as a builder of great structures). The camel is featured in the previous two setences, referring to Crop-eared, Mohammed's camel. | "It may have been . . .": Answering the question "What broke the camel's back?" -- that is, what was the cause of Tim Finnegan's fall from his ladder, and what caused the Temple to fall or the Tower of Babble to collapse (coming after a long section about Finnegan's role as a builder of great structures). The camel is featured in the previous two setences, referring to Crop-eared, Mohammed's camel. | ||
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| + | It may half been a missfired brick, as some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back promises, as others looked at it. | ||
Revision as of 17:36, 14 August 2005
"It may have been . . .": Answering the question "What broke the camel's back?" -- that is, what was the cause of Tim Finnegan's fall from his ladder, and what caused the Temple to fall or the Tower of Babble to collapse (coming after a long section about Finnegan's role as a builder of great structures). The camel is featured in the previous two setences, referring to Crop-eared, Mohammed's camel.
The full sentence reads:
It may half been a missfired brick, as some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back promises, as others looked at it.
