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A close friend of ours has, for years, had her answering machine set to answer calls with:
"The only true number is one. All else is mere repetition." --Nabokov.
Today, I finally found the perfect comeback:
"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'." --Sir Arthur Eddington.
And so I called her, and left it in reply.

Re: It's a small thing, but it pleases me.

Date: 2004-12-18 06:33 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] pir-anha.livejournal.com
*heh*. that's a great comeback.

Date: 2004-12-19 10:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sciamanna.livejournal.com
I love it. Thanks!
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