Re: phasing out my pages

[Alan Mead]

According to this website: 
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

Twain said something remotely related but this quote is better 
attributed to Pascal. However, it also says I can blame the Chicago 
Tribune for the misattribution, and I am pleased to do so.

I also have a feeling that people repeat things, so it could also have 
been said by any number of people.

Some of the quotes that are randomly sampled for my signature are 
gathered from the Internet and of dubious attribution, but I happen to 
have just re-read "A Wizard of Earthsea" and I can vouch for today's 
quote (or something essentially the same). I forget who said it, but it 
pertains to the main plot of that novel where Ged has to defeat an 
antagonist described as a "shadow."

-Alan


On 2/4/2022 11:12 AM, John Darrington wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 04:13:28PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
>       
>       I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
>       
>       -- Mark Twain
>
>
> Do you have a reference for this quote?  I have variously seen this phrase 
> attributed
> to Blaise Pascal, Mohandas Gandhi, Antoinne du St. Exupery and George V - but 
> this is
> the first time I've seen Mark Twain as the source.
>
> J'
>       

--

Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
President, Talent Algorithms Inc.

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https://talalg.com


Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does
light?

-- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)