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Larry Wall wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote: > : Austin Hastings wrote: > : >Does this mean that we're done? :) > : > : No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre > : and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius. > > The only bizarre and inexplicable thing that has occurred to me in the > last week is that I fell into a canal in Venice. It was definitely > somewhat stunning, but I have yet to figure out how to view it as > a stroke of genius. I suppose if I were Archimedes I'd have climbed > back out and shouted "Eureka", but as far as I know Archimedes never > made it to Italy, so it didn't occur to me... That's not what I was thinking of. Also, climbing back out and shouting 'Eureka' would only really be appropriate if you actually had experienced a moment of revelation about something. I suspect you were too busy with the not drowning part for that. Youch, anyway.Thread Previous | Thread Next