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In article <1992Oct6.184847.4225@news.iastate.edu>, bible@iastate.edu (Anthony E Bible) writes:
|In article <BvpDK2.2wF@unx.sas.com> sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden) writes:
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|>My conclusion?  A writer needs to have a better ear for paragraphs that
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|       Seems to me there *is* and implied "to be" in the question.

Congratulations and throw the man a fish!

My grandmother taught reading and writing to Hopi Indian children back
around the turn of the century, and one of her grateful students gave
her a very nice rug that his mother had woven (and which now hangs on my
parents' dining-room wall).  He proudly pointed out to her the tiny
mistake in one portion of the pattern where a line jags out instead of
in, as symmetry would dictate that it should do.  He explained that a
perfect work of art would have no flaws through which the evil spirits
that attended its creation could escape; therefore every artist should
allow a small imperfection to remain to let the evil spirits out.

In keeping with this theory, my mother deliberately created a unique
tiny imperfection in each of the needlepoint seatcovers she made for the
dining chairs in that room, each of which derives its pattern from a
portion of the Hopi rug on the wall.

I take consolation from the thought that no evil spirit need ever fear
being trapped in anything I've written.

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--Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC  |  sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
        Hellenic poet of the same name.  |