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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 – May 3, 1845) was a British humorist and poet. His son, Tom Hood, became a well known playwright and editor. Baudelaire's prose poem with the English title "Any Where Out of the World" takes the line from the Hood poem "The Bridge of Sighs" that Baudelaire translated.

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