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coyotegoth) wrote2007-09-27 01:18 pm
coyotegoth) wrote2007-09-27 01:18 pm
for the record, I favor its use
An amusing quote from A. Scott Berg's biography Lindbergh:
...English compositions (of Lindbergh's) reveal some playfulness about the rigors of academia but an equal lack of respect for them as well. One was a story about a clergyman presenting his passport to St. Peter, only to be turned away because of his failure on earth to use the serial comma; "[a] pity," Peter states, "to permit so many minor mechanical errors to bar good material from eternal commendation."
...English compositions (of Lindbergh's) reveal some playfulness about the rigors of academia but an equal lack of respect for them as well. One was a story about a clergyman presenting his passport to St. Peter, only to be turned away because of his failure on earth to use the serial comma; "[a] pity," Peter states, "to permit so many minor mechanical errors to bar good material from eternal commendation."
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