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Michelle Ann's avatar

A very interesting article. I wonder if ‘the waiting world was still’ is a mis-memory of the line ‘the world in solemn stillness lay’ from the carol ‘It came upon a midnight clear’, written in 1849?

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Elisabeth Grace Foley's avatar

It could be! None of the other misquotations differed quite that much in sentence structure or the rhythm of the line, but it's still a possibility.

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