ian (06/30/82)
I wish people would use mail rather than news to answer trivial
inquiries such as the one about ST2 quotations. Anyone who asks
such a question deserves to get 38 answers, but the rest of us
who read the newsgroup don't. I know, and most people know, that
the quotes are from *A Tale of Two Cities*. Further, the director
knows that most people know, otherwise he would have omitted them
because they would't `work' from an artistic/cinematic point of
view.
So please reply to trivial questions by mail. On this system I
use the "r-" answer to the next article's [ynq] prompt to mail
directly to the questioner). Thanks.
What worries me just as much is how people could get through
high school and probably university without having been
exposed to the context of such well-known quotations. However,
that discussion belongs in some hypothetical group such as
net.nfgschoolsys or something.
Ian Darwin
U of Toronto Computing Services