Matinal Redundancy of the Morning

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According to the Washington Post, the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina “cast a funereal pall” over New Orleans.

(A pall is the dark cloth you drape over a coffin. A funereal coffin, that is. Not a baptismal or nuptial coffin.)

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