On 23 Apr 2009 at 8:24, Pollak, Edward wrote: > I can't believe I'm responding to a Sylvestrian note but here goes: >
Ah, yes. "Sweet are the uses of adversity". ["Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head"] As You Like It, Act II, scene I But retired guy has to go with what immediately follows, however wildly optimistic: "And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." And the psychologist in him likes this one: "What a piece of work is a man! Now noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable!" [certain parties excluded, of course] Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2 But if those two makes tonstant weader fwow up, how about this: "O hell, what have we here" [on reading yet another correlation= causation paper]. The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene VII Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
