Thread 24854635

>"Your style is much too sanctified —
>your cut is too canonical" —
From the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Patience duet ‘So Go to Him and Say to Him’.
I struggle to understand what is meant by ‘canonical’. I’ve tried Wiktionary and I still don’t get it.
https://www.gsarchive.net/patience/webop/pat15.html
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JutFKM17Pl4&pp=ygUkc28gZ28gdG8gaGltIGFuZCBzYXkgdG8gaGltIHBhdGllbmNl

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>>24854639
Thanks. Do you need to create an account to use this Grok?

>>24854650
I dunno. I just used my dummy x account that has no ties to me