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- Which press was that again? - Oxford.
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But they did your translation of the Menaechmi last year.
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They did. They've been terrific.
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Plautus. How do you find the time?
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Well, I don't have a life.
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I read some biographical material on you last week, Bill.
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You, ah, you come from humble beginnings.
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I do, yea.
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- Where was it? Omaha? - Oklahoma.
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Oh, why don't you, ah, why don't you have an accent?
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With some considerable effort, I lost it.
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- Your father was a bootlegger. - It was my grandfather, actually.