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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:04:28 EDT
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- From: Ken Koester <MAINT2@ERS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: The advent of "technological secrecy"
- In-Reply-To: Message of Sat,
- 12 Sep 1992 14:39:54 +1000 from <med@LINGUA.CLTR.U Q.OZ.AU>
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- On Sat, 12 Sep 1992 14:39:54 +1000 Marion Diamond said:
- >Lenny, the story of the chronometers is told in an epic poem by
- >an Australian poet, A. D. Hope,
- >
- > Two chronometers the Captain [Cook] had,
- > One by Harrison that ran like mad,
- > One by Kendall in a walnut case,
- > Poor demented creature with a hangdog face...
- >
- >And so, on, for innumerable stanzas - I learned large chunks of it
- >at school, and it used to be burnedinto the brains of numerous
- >Australian children!
-
- This seems a bit odd; the chronometric verse I've always heard is something
- to the effect that, when going to sea, take 1 chronometer or 3. *Not* 2, for
- obvious reasons.
-