mberkman@bbnccs (07/26/85)
From: Melinda Berkman <mberkman@bbnccs.ARPA> I've always wondered where the quote that is used to authorize real-world mode for the computer Shalmaneser in _Stand_On_Zanzibar_ is from. Seeing it used again in Diane Duane's Star Trek novel _The_Wounded_Sky_ has reminded me of it. Does anyone know where "I tell you once, I tell you twice, what I tell you three times is true" is from? Melinda Berkman
judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms) (07/31/85)
"What I tell you three times is true" is, I believe, from _The_Hunting_ of_the_Snark_, by Lewis Carroll.
datanguay@watdaisy.UUCP (David Tanguay) (08/02/85)
> "What I tell you three times is true" is, I believe, from _The_Hunting_ > of_the_Snark_, by Lewis Carroll. This comes from an old folk-saying. Shakespeare made a reference to it (I remember the teacher discussing it in high-school, but I can't remember the play: one of Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, or MacBeth) so it has been around a loooong time.