Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > Nice! Cross off another line! I feel like Hemingway. :) > > Was he the one who once apologized to his editor for a story > being so long because he was in a hurry and didn't have time to > make it shorter?
Nope, that immortal quote is by Blaise Pascal (also known as a philosopher, a mathematician, and the developer of one of the best early mechanical calculators, as well as for the programming language Niklaus Wirth named after him, and the SI standard unit of pressure, 1 Pa == 1 N per square meter, also named in his honor because he was the first to use a barometer to measure altitude); it's found in his "Lettres Provinciales" (which is not a collection of "real" letters, but rather a philosophical, theological and political polemic cast in epistular form). It's often misattributed to Mark Twain, but this the first time I've heard it associated with Hemingway! Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
