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Thread #1615   Message #4194974
Posted By: and e
05-Jan-24 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: a worm song
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: a worm song
"Nobody loves me and I don't love nobody and I'm goin' out
in the back garden to eat worms." This is the modern fashion
of definition of the idea which used to be expressed as "biting
off one's nose to spite one's face." Every one knows what it is
like to feel that "nobody loves man and I don't love nobody."


March, 1904. The Smith College Monthly,Vol XI, No. 6. pg 375

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