Fwd: one-handed quote search

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Wed Aug 17 05:18:11 UTC 2005


><<... que j'avais plus de trente ans
>avant que j'eusse jeté les yeux sur aucun de ces dangereux livres qu'une
>belle dame de par le monde trouve incommodes, en ce qu'on ne peut les lire
>que d'une main.>>

Translation of that last part (from Google Print):

<<... that I was more than thirty years old before I so much as glanced at
one of those dangerous books which one lovely woman of the world finds
inconvenient, so she says, because they can only be read with one hand.>>

-- Doug Wilson



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