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   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
   AK>  From the story about dr Jekyll & Hyde:   
      
   AK>  ....I was in the mere stupidity of wonder, before       
   AK>  terror woke up in my breast as sudden and startling    
   AK>  as the crash of cymbals, and bounding from my bed,    
   AK>  I rushed to the mirror.   
      
   AK>  Why "the crash" not "a crash"?   
      
         
             Dallas & I agree that we don't feel strongly about it either way,   
   but IMHO a cymbal crash is quite distinctive... as is e.g. "the skirl of   
   bagpipes", or "the sound of a great Amen" in THE LOST CHORD.   
      
             Another point Dallas brought up is that the author had already used   
   a number of words beginning with /a/ in close proximity there.  He was writing   
   at a time when the vast majority of his audience would hear it read aloud....    
   :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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