[Marie Paganel]

Когда нечего постить, буду постить анекдоты из терминала.
Раздвиньте окошко кода, чтобы прочесть:

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( The Least Perceptive Literary Critic    )
(                                         )
( The most important critic in our field  )
( of study is Lord Halifax. A most        )
( individual judge of poetry, he once     )
( invited Alexander Pope round to give a  )
( public reading of his latest poem.      )
(                                         )
( Pope, the leading poet of his day, was  )
( greatly surprised when Lord Halifax     )
( stopped him four or five times and      )
( said, "I beg your pardon, Mr. Pope, but )
( there is something in that passage that )
( does not quite please me."              )
(                                         )
( Pope was rendered speechless, as this   )
( fine critic suggested sizeable and      )
( unwise emendations to his latest        )
( masterpiece. "Be so good as to mark the )
( place and consider at your leisure. I'm )
( sure you can give it a better turn."    )
(                                         )
( After the reading, a good friend of     )
( Lord Halifax, a certain Dr. Garth, took )
( the stunned Pope to one side. "There is )
( no need to touch the lines," he said.   )
( "All you need do is leave them just as  )
( they are, call on Lord Halifax two or   )
( three months hence, thank him for his   )
( kind observation on those passages, and )
( then read them to him as altered. I     )
( have known him much longer than you     )
( have, and will be answerable for the    )
( event."                                 )
(                                         )
( Pope took his advice, called on Lord    )
( Halifax and read the poem exactly as it )
( was before. His unique critical         )
( faculties had lost none of their edge.  )
( "Ay", he commented, "now they are       )
( perfectly right. Nothing can be         )
( better."                                )
(                                         )
( -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic    )
( Failures"                               )
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@темы: то, чему не место в приличном блоге