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Re: An invitation to Diane; was: Computation vs. Storage

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, June 18, 1999, 4:46
Sally Caves wrote:
> Patrick Dunn, who passed it along to > somebody else...
> We don't know if it's > still four lines!
Well, it was four lines when I received it, but that was pretty early in the chain. I must admit to possibly messing it up in fitting it to Kassi' poetic standards. The first three lines just happened to work out, but the last one I had to slightly paraphrase, turning a wh-question into a yes/no question (who ...? to "does a person exist who ...?") -- Happy that Nation, - fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting -- Benjamin Franklin http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ #: 18656696 AIM screen-name: NikTailor