MDMD(0) : Opening Call For The Mass Discussion of Mason & Dixon

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Thomas Harberd writes:
  . . .

> In TNOFTR Eco also puts in modern quotations.  For example, 
> there's a bit from Wittgenstein about us being dwarves 
> standing on the shoulders of giants which William says to 
> Nicholas in the forge on the first day.

Wittgenstein may well have borrowed this but it was said by others
previously, in particular a certain Dr Isaac . . .


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.