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What about William Topaz McGonagall. He thought himself to be a poet of some genius, and I have to say that he was probably right, though not in the way he thought.
For anyone not familiar with his work I would recommend the selection at http://www.taynet.co.uk/users/mcgon/
"The Tay Bridge Disaster" is particularly moving
Mark Seaborne
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
Sent: 24 October 2002 13:56
To: Mike Champion
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Profundity du jour (was Re: [xml-dev] What is XML
For?)
Mike Champion scripsit:
> "[...] But they also laughed at > Bozo the Clown."
But not because he was a fool. I didn't use this quote because I think
it's off the point: the trouble is that it is hard to think of someone
who 1) is uncontroversially a fool of the relevant kind and 2) is well-known.
The fate of fools is obscurity.
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