On Wed, 9 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:

> Beginning Perl was going to use a blown-up microscope slide of a grain
> of sand - the beginnings of a pearl. Of course, nobody would have got
> it, so we went with a cat instead, which is even more oblique.

Hmmm, I suppose a blown-up grain of sand could also be used on the cover 
of a book about advanced perl internals, because a grain of sand is 
what's "at the core" of a pearl.

John.

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