Posted by Robert Thompson on December 03, 2001 at 22:05:08 from 212.229.58.245:
In Reply to: Re: Cherry Picking...? posted by Robert Dilley on December 03, 2001 at 20:59:36:
Several members seem to agree with my choice of Softly, at first.... but yes, Robert Dilley, it is coincidence that I receive North Pole News which contains that very sentence. Is there perhaps a slight suggestion that I might have been, let's say, influenced by that said publication? Shame on you, Doctor, just remember that whatever time of day it is in Canada we Anglos had it first! 8-)
Just to please the Canadians, then, my second choice would be from the same book, the section where Dick is the astronomer:
And there they were, Taurus, Aldebaran, the Pleiades, obedient as slaves....He felt an odd wish to shout at them in triumph, but remembered in time that this would not be scientific.