Monty Python had a great skit on this. I recall them treating Thomas Hardy's
start of a new novel as a sports event. As soon as the first word "the"
comes out, the commentators start quoting statistics about how often Hardy
began a novel with "the", and how this isn't really a surprise, and all
that. And when Hardy suddenly types away furiously, and misspells a word,
_and keeps on going_, the fans go absolutely wild.
-- Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
