Daniel F. Hurley . Joyce Carol Oates's "By the River" Connotations 8: 136-45
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Hallo!
A great deal of steam!
The pudding was out of the copper.
“That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the river.”
“Smell it, father dear!”
“ Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate—princeps obsoniorum.”
…a splendid meal, of perhaps 30 courses…
originally performed by Shirley Ellis;
written by Shirley Ellis and Lincoln Chase
Come on ev\’rybody,
I say now let\’s play a game,
I betcha I can make
a rhyme out of anybody\’s name.