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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:09:41 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: ULTIMATE NON-MATHEMATICAL QUOTE FROM DONNE
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- Sorry, that last one got away from befoe 'twas Donne. It
- should have looked like this. BTW, MacB. is full of Donne puns.
-
-
- > : Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one;
- > : Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot
- > : A constant habit;
- >
- > : Then somewhere else he says "at round earth's imagined corners".
- > : What a total imbecile.
- >
- > : tushar
- >
- > > Not at all - it's a poetic interpretation of the equation
- >
- > i.pi
- > > e = -1
- >
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- If it were Donne when 'tis Donne, then 'twere well
- It were Donne quickly. If the assassination
- ..................
- What's Donne is Donne.
- ..................
- BUT LET THE FRAME OF THINGS DISJOINT, BOTH THE WORLDS SUFFER
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- * Peter Montgomery Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca *
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