4 thoughts on “Let’s talk about (Tuttle’s line)”

  1. it all makes sense when you put it in context:
    “The Fifty-eighth and Seventh Illinois were at once moved forward to Duncan Field, where they formed at 9:30 a.m., on north side of the Corinth road, prolonging Tuttle’s line and connecting with McClernand’s left.”
    –1913 Report of the Shiloh National Military Park Commission
    “…to a chestnut and poplar on the dividing line N44 E28 po. to a sour wood and gum on Tuttle’s line and with said line N55 W52 poles birch sour wood a chestnut corner to Tuttle and with line N55 E124 poles to two white oak and gum corner to said Tuttle thence with the said line S55 E 70 poles to a hickory and maple N44 E190 poles to the beginning & to have and to hold…”
    –Land records of Greenbriar County, W.VA
    “Following Tuttle’s line of reasoning, I must be a Tucson anomaly–someone who regularly shops at both AJ’s and the 99-cent stores. ”
    –Tucson Weekly
    “Often it is the fragility of Tuttle’s line that gives the art its emotional charge.”
    –MercuryNews

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  2. Other famous lines:
    the Mendoza line
    the Maginot line
    the A line
    the Circle line
    the line in the sand
    etc. (come on, Itto, this one has your name all over it …)

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  4. e, your posts dazzled and danced.
    deniro was marvelous as harry tuttle in ‘brazil.’ [YES, we were able to mention another terry gilliam movie in only a week.]
    ‘brazil’ trivia you must know:
    The shadowy smoking figure that stalks Sam at various points in the film is played by an uncredited Terry Gilliam.
    “Sam Lowry: I only know you got the wrong man.
    Jack Lint: Information Transit got the wrong man. I got the *right* man. The wrong one was delivered to me as the right man, I accepted him on good faith as the right man. Was I wrong?”
    —Brazil
    harbinger of 2000 presidential election?! hmmm, and faith plays a role.

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