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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@r...] Sent: 24 October 2002 13:56 To: Mike Champion Cc: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: Profundity du jour (was Re: 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. -- Some people open all the Windows; John Cowan wise wives welcome the spring jcowan@r... by moving the Unix. http://www.reutershealth.com --ad for Unix Book Units (U.K.) http://www.ccil.org/~cowan (see http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/unix3image.gif) ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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