标题: 'Cleavers at Ten Paces' [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 3-31-2015 12:56 标题: 'Cleavers at Ten Paces' On Mar 29, I had a posting titled "Fortune, Mar 15, 2015 (I)," which was about "Erika Fry, Cleavers at Ten Paces."
The title of the article is a wordplay on a phrase “pistols at ten paces.” See duel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel
(For a pistol duel, the parties would be placed back to back with loaded weapons in hand and walk a set number of paces, turn to face the opponent, and shoot. Typically, the graver the insult, the fewer the paces agreed upon; (section 9.1 Popular works: "Pistols at Ten Paces; The story of the code of honor in America, William Oliver Stevens (1940)")