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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1053.1 | | VMSMKT::KENAH | Escapes,Lies,Truth,Passion,Miracles | Wed Jun 30 1993 07:50 | 1 |
| Can we assume you've checked the usual sources?
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| 1053.2 | | FORTY2::KNOWLES | DECspell snot awl ewe kneed | Wed Jun 30 1993 08:22 | 3 |
| Rings a bell. I think it's in ODQ�. I'll look it up tonight.
b
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| 1053.3 | | CALLME::MR_TOPAZ | | Wed Jun 30 1993 08:54 | 15 |
| re .1:
No. I don't own a Bartlett's, and I don't know where my local
library is. Even if I did know, the opening hours are probably
from 9-11 am Tuesdays and Wednesdays, because of budget cutbacks.
I couldn't find the quote anywhere in the VMS doc set (I think
it's V3.0 that I have in my office), in the ISO/IEC POSIX 1003.1
standard, or in the latest organizational announcements for my
group.
I am, as is so often the case, relying on the kindness of
strangers and stranges.
--Mr Topaz
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| 1053.4 | | VMSMKT::KENAH | Escapes,Lies,Truth,Passion,Miracles | Wed Jun 30 1993 09:29 | 7 |
| > No. I don't own a Bartlett's, and I don't know where my local
> library is. Even if I did know, the opening hours are probably
> from 9-11 am Tuesdays and Wednesdays, because of budget cutbacks.
ZK1-3 -- it has a copy of Bartlett's, and it's open even as we speak.
andrew
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| 1053.5 | (like the joke about the mathematician and the fire) | TLE::JBISHOP | | Wed Jun 30 1993 11:54 | 5 |
| "Triumph of hope over experience" is how I remember it.
So Andrew, why didn't you look it up and tell us?
-John Bishop
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| 1053.6 | | VMSMKT::KENAH | Escapes,Lies,Truth,Passion,Miracles | Wed Jun 30 1993 13:28 | 1 |
| I might...
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| 1053.8 | Dr. Samuel Johnson | MU::PORTER | datapanik | Wed Jun 30 1993 21:17 | 8 |
| re .0
"A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married
immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the
triumph of hope over experience."
Boswell's "Life of Johnson".
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| 1053.9 | | CALLME::MR_TOPAZ | | Thu Jul 01 1993 05:52 | 6 |
|
re .8:
Thank you.
--Mr Topaz
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| 1053.10 | bon mot, not general verity | FORTY2::KNOWLES | DECspell snot awl ewe kneed | Mon Jul 05 1993 07:11 | 8 |
| And Dr Johnson was talking about a particular man, so he wasn't saying
- generally - that getting married a second time exemplified the
triumph of hope over experience (although it's conceivable that he may
have _thought_ that), but that in a particular instance (where one man
had been unhappily married before - I forget the details, but I've got
them at home) it was surprising he should marry again.
b
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