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Subject:Re: How old is the profession? (Ptahhotep's text) From:Roy Jacobsen <rjacobse -at- GPS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:15:11 -0500
Hmmm. Must have been the same Ptahotep who said:
"Be a scribe! Your body will be sleek, your hand will be soft. . . . You
are one who sits grandly in your house; your servants answer speedily;
beer is poured copiously; all who see you rejoice in good cheer. Happy
is the heart of him who writes; he is young each day."
Some days, I'd settle for the beer, much less any of the rest.
Regards,
Roy M. Jacobsen
Editor
Great Plains Software
rjacobse -at- gps -dot- com
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
resemble a nail." --Abraham Maslow
