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Subject:Re: Is it just me...? From:Stephen Victor <svictor -at- LGC -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 24 May 1995 10:05:07 CDT
> > "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's
> draft."
> >
> > - H.G. Wells
> I have the same problem, even when I'm reading fiction (I'll be
> reading and notice a glaring grammatical or typographical error and
> have this insane craving to write the editor).
> I also have a sign hanging in my office. This is a quote attributed
> to Mark Twain (and it is oh, so true!!):
> "There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work"
Hmm, these quotations are remarkably similar. Could one or both of us have
misattributed them?
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Landmark Graphics Corporation http://www.cda.ulpgc.es/steve.html
15150 Memorial Drive
Houston, TX 77009 USA
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