[PW] Re: FW: Cigar Sayings

[Peter Macinnis]

There is at least one copy out there-- and I have it.  A colleague in 
the Commonwealth of Australia Sub-Treasury borrowed one from the City of 
Sydney Library in 1963, thinking it was a murder mystery (he was 
learning Morse code to become a telegraphist with a secure future, so as 
you can see, his judgement was a bit dodgy).

Disappointed at finding poetry rather than bludgeoning and other 
excursions into the violent, he passed it to me.  I like to think his 
judgement was off, in that he immediately thought of showing it to me, 
but I am afraid he was right.  I later imported a copy, which I still have.

I have just read swiftly through it, but with care.  While I can see 
several cigar references, mainly at the end of a thickish work on thick, 
unnumbered pages, I can't see any Freuds.

I shall work through it again, later today, but I am fairly sure that my 
rapid pass did not miss the piece you mention.  It does, however, fit 
the style, so I undertake to cruise through more slowly.  It is, after 
all, an old friend, and deserving of greater courtesy.

peter macinnis

Edward Franchuk wrote:
>  Just entering "close, but no cigar" (with the quotation marks) into the Google search engine returns several pages of hits, many of which discuss the origin of the phrase.
> 
>  
> I may have the exact wording worong, and do not claim any accuracy in presenting line divisions, but Norman Mailer published a volume of very short poems (which he dubbed "short hairs") called _Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)_, which contained a nice rejoinder to the Freud quotation to which I assume you were referring ("Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar"): as I recall it, the poem goes
> 
> When Dr. Freud
> Smoked a cigar
> It got longer
> Instead of shorter.
> 
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