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I have heard—perhaps from my father, who enjoyed peppering me with historical anecdotes, especially tales from the Vienna Woods—that when the shrewd Austrian maneuverer of the Holy Alliance, Prince Metternich, died in 1859, diplomats everywhere kept asking: “What do you suppose he meant by it?”
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Sebeok, T.A. (1986). Introduction. In: I Think I Am a Verb. Topics in Contemporary Semiotics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3490-1_1
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