Re: Jabberwocky

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From: Dave Horsfall
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 04:24

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In article <CKLINE.16.731310924@buc.edu.au>,
    CKLINE@buc.edu.au (Colin Kline) writes:

| A computerised version of a Chinese Fortune Cookie generator, which 
| randomly leaps onto my screen when I boot, gave this little 
| "Pearl Of Wisdom" recently:
| 
|         Es brillig war. Die schlichte Toven Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;

It's unclear to me what this has to do with mail (this is aus.mail after
all), but since you ask...

I first saw it in Hofstater's (sp?) book "Escher, Godel, Bach: The Eternal
Golden Braid."  All verses were in English, French and German.  Appeared
around 1980 or so.

-- 
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)    VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC     PGP 2.1
dave@esi.COM.AU           ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave    available

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Subject: Re: Jabberwocky
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