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Subject:
The handwriting is on the wall
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"Michael D. Hensley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:03:45 -0800
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Wirt Atmar posted:
> No. Once the moving finger writes, not for all your piety nor all your wit,
> can you erase half a line of it.

and David_N_Lukenbill asked:
> Nice literary reference!  Please refresh my fading memory on the origin.

Well, start at Daniel 5:5... but the text neither contains nor implies the quote
Wirt made.  It sounds familiar.  Let's see what AltaVista has to say:

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
-- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

There you are!

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