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Q: "My ears (or should I say my eyes) pricked up upon reading Robert M. Sebastian's "Red Pants" [XV, 3] wherein he cites, inter alia , Ezra Pound's Mr. Nixon: Don't kick against the pricks."
A:
My ears pricked up upon reading Robert M. Sebastian's "Red Pants"he cites, inter alia,Ezra Pound's Mr. Nixon: Don't kick against the pricks.