Why have I not heard about this sooner?
It was an "oh my God" moment – why, I thought, have I not heard this before?
Why had I not heard of Jo Cox until after she was dead?
"Had I not heard him, I never would have done jazz.
Had I not heard my father talk of "the Manica country", just as Quatermain does?
I am not well versed in classical music; had I not heard the announcer, I would have guessed it was something contemporary — even composed this very day.
The triumphant Bayley was awarded with a solemnly confessed roll call of his predecessors, as we read in his "Elegy for Iris": Had I not heard all about them, the people of her past and present, at one time or another during the period of our own intimacy?
Or, as Mr. Herrmann said, "I think back to the summer of 1978, listening and hearing Elvis Costello and the Attractions on the radio for the very first time, and then turning around not long after that and hearing the Pretenders for the first time, and how my life would have been much less complete had I not heard that".
The triumphant Bayley was awarded with a solemnly confessed roll call of his predecessors, as we read in his "Elegy for Iris": **{:.break one} ** Had I not heard all about them, the people of her past and present, at one time or another during the period of our own intimacy?
My first reaction was: how have I not heard of this before?
Who was this writer and why had I not heard about her in any of my college lit classes.
