On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:38:30 +0000 Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed on electronic parchment:
> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:49, Tim Sawchuck wrote: > > > There is more power in your music than you know - is this the "music > > hath charms to sooth a savage beast" thing going here?!?!? > > Since I'm on a correcting-colloquialisms kick on this list...:) > > That's a misquote. The original is: "Music hath charms to soothe the > savage breast" (note breast, not beast). Something by...er...William > Congreve, I believe. Well, I'll blame it on Google and artistic license. ;-) My memory was even worse. ....And all these many years I thought it was beast...... savage..... breast..... damn!! <chuckle> Tim -- _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net
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