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good morning, damn you. Louisa May Alcott related the story of this unlikely phrase in “Transcendental Wild Oats,” a short story based on her father, Bronson Alcott’s, idealistic but short-lived Fruitlands community: “One youth [a member of the community] believing that language was of little conse- quence if the spirit was only right, startled newcomers by blandly greeting them with ‘Good morning, damn you,’ and other remarks of an equally mixed order.” No one seems to have objected. |