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From : Stepan M. Pechkin                    2:405/333.21   Sat 32 Nov 98 00:00
To   : All
Subj : Льюис Кэрролл о необходимости смайликов
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	О, All!

"Well, another thing greatly needed, little girl, is some way of expressing that we don't mean anything."

"Explain yourself, little boy! Surely you can find no difficulty in expressing a total absence of meaning?"

"I mean that you should be able, when you don't mean a thing to be taken seriously, to express that wish. For human nature is so constituted that whatever you write seriously is taken as a joke, and whatever you mean as a joke is taken seriously! At any rate, it is so in writing to a lady!"

Lewis Carroll, "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded", Wordsworth Editions, 1996, p.529-530

		Stepan (с приветом)
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