)(ark Lewis:

ML> but yeah, i went back upthread and looked... the
ML> original re:"... about polo" statement, that dallas
ML> wrote, had "of everything" in it... AK dropped that "of"
ML> somehow... i do similar... a lot... my fingers type what
ML> they want to type instead of what my brain is telling
ML> them to type 8-|

AK is very careful and meticulous. It was his intent, rather
than mistake, to drop the `of'. He proposed to use `drain'
in a sense similar to `confide' or `tell' -- to let
information out, to let it pour out of you as if by removing
a stopper.

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