-Caveat Lector-
Ah hah ! so this is the posting that sparked up all the fuss .
My my Hoffa aren't we odiously facetious . Careful there big
fella
don't blow a gasket on my account . I can assure you an imbecile
like me isn't worth it .
Divine ~
I is a collage gradient ........
divinewill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Though this is quite cute , I do believe the original quote
> was " a million monkeys at a >million
> >keyboards for a million years could produce the Complete
Works
> of Shakespeare " , >none the less I
> >guess it's a mute point since Shakespeare has already been
> produced .......... and is >on the web
> >.
> >
> >Divine~
>
>
> Hello? Hello? Is there any intelligent life out there?
>
> My original message consisted of the following quote:
>
> "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards
> could
> produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the
> Internet, we know this is not true."
>
> --Robert Wilensky
>
> First of all, the quote begins "We've heard that..." Then it
> continues by
> giving the entire original quote (which you repeat in your
> reply). Why
> do you have to point out the original quote to us again as if
I
> somehow
> made a mistake and quoted it wrong? Hello? Hello? It was an
> obvious, humorous play on the old, familiar, original quote.
>
> This is the first example which proves my point. Monkeys (or
> the
> majority of the frantic masses on A.O.L., if you prefer the
> simpler,
> literal translation) don't write Shakespeare (a figurative
> reference to all
> great literature and art of the past, present, and future;
this
> doesn't just
> refer to Shakespeare's plays, which may or may not be on the
> internet;
> Hello?). Here's the proof of my point just in case you
couldn't
> glean it
> from what I've written so far: If someone cannot understand
> such a
> simple literary convention as parody without trying to impose
a
> very
> mundane, banal, overly-simplistic interpretation upon it, how
> can they
> write anything akin to the true artistry, quality, and
> true-to-life spirit of
> the classics? In other, more figurative, words, monkeys don't
> write
> Shakespeare. Hello?
>
> The second example proving my point is contained in a line of
> your
> reply:
>
> >guess it's a mute point since Shakespeare has already been
> produced...
>
> Shakespeare may have already been produced, but if you want
to
> produce anything comparable, it seems you may need a good
> proof-reader. I can excuse incorrect spellings; after all, we
> all make careless
> mistakes. However, one should not try to use words with which
> they are
> unfamiliar. Anyone out there remember Norm Crosby? The word
> MUTE is
> most often defined as: the inability or lack of desire to
> speak. The word I
> think you meant to use was MOOT, most often defined as: open
> for discussion
> or debate, as in a moot point. The old spell checker wouldn't
> catch that one.
> It required the gray matter grammatic/syntactic checker. An
> acute awareness
> of word use, conventions, multiple meanings both literal and
> figurative, and
> placement within the context of a sentence and/or paragraph in
> order to
> construct the desired meaning plays a significant role in the
> production of great literature. Alternate meanings, puns,
> allusions, etc. all add depth to writing,
> allowing a reader to skim as shallowly or plunge as deeply as
> they may desire.
> Once again, we see the point of Mr. Wilensky's quote proven:
if
> you try to dive in
> to a lot of what you read on the internet, you're bound to hit
> your head on a rocky, shallow bottom sooner or later (this,
> however, is not typical of most of the fine
> writings found at CTRL).
> And now, I will be MUTE on the suject.
>
>
> The No Longer Kind, Gentle
> HOFFA
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