Re: CHAT: Sax Rohmer et al.

Padraic Brown wrote:

> Aye! I think he must have a Secret Index of the things, so that
> whenever someone asks about something, he can come up with just
> the right URL or oddball quotation.
Honest, guys&dolls, it's Alta Vista and nothing but, as far as the
web pages are concerned.  It helps to be able to skim a page quickly
so I can hit the Next link.

The quotations are embedded in my cortex, but I usually use Alta Vista
here too, in order to "straighten" the wording.  On occasion, I keep
my own wording, as in these favorites:

        We call nothing profound that is not wittily expressed.
                -- Northrop Frye, improved by John Cowan

        "Take a letter:  To Humadinger, Humadinger, Humadinger,
        Humadinger, and Humadinger?"

        "That's Humadinger, Humadinger, Humadinger, Humadinger,
        and Humadinger?"

        "No, no!  You left out one of the Humadingers --- *and he's
        the most important one*!"
                -- Groucho, improved by Thomas A. Cowan (my father)

> Yea though I tread through the Valley of Ignorance, the Cowan
> is with me; his Webpage and Quotation they comfort me; he leadeth
> me to Knowledge's Well...
*blush*

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with art- / lessness                 \\ -- Piet Hein