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On 4/9/13 5:47 PM, Peter Ring wrote: > You know, the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I > can resist everything but temptation ... Have you been spending too much time with the ontologists? Paying words for the work they do does seem like a good idea, though... Thanks, Simon > Impenetrability! > > 'I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said. > > Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't â till I tell > you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"' > > 'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected. > > 'When *I* use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, > 'it means just what I choose it to mean â neither more nor less.' > > 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you *can* make words mean so > many different things.' > > 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master â that's all.' > > Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty > Dumpty began again. 'They've a temper, some of them â particularly > verbs: they're the proudest â adjectives you can do anything with, but > not verbs â however, *I* can manage the whole lot of them! > Impenetrability! That's what *I* say!' > > 'Would you tell me please,' said Alice, 'what that means?' > > 'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very > much pleased. 'I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of > that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you > mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest > of your life.' > > 'That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful > tone. > > 'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I > always pay it extra.' > > 'Oh!' said Alice. She was too much puzzled to make any other remark. > > 'Ah, you should see 'em come round me of a Saturday night,' Humpty > Dumpty went on, wagging his head gravely from side to side, 'for to get > their wages, you know.' > > (Alice didn't venture to ask what he paid them with; and so you see I > can't tell *you*.) > > 'You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir,' said Alice. 'Would you > kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called "Jabberwocky"?' > > 'Let's hear it,' said Humpty Dumpty. 'I can explain all the poems that > ever were invented â and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.' -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/
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