After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Monday 16 February 2009 18:55 : \____
>
>> Hey, this sounds just like Quack:
>>
>> "I don't know what you mean by 'glory'," Alice said.
>> Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't --
>> 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 a rather scornful
>> tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- 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 --
>> that's all."
>
> So the Quirky Hadron is "Humpty"?
No, he's the Dumpty.
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No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.
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