diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index dee0593c..32e0c7a7 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ EMULATOR ?= simh SRC = system syseng sysen1 sysen2 sysnet kshack dragon channa midas \ _teco_ emacs emacs1 rms klh syshst sra mrc ksc eak cstacy gren \ bawden _mail_ l lisp liblsp libdoc comlap lspsrc nilcom rwk \ - inquir acount gz sys decsys alan + inquir acount gz sys decsys alan ecc DOC = info _info_ sysdoc kshack _teco_ emacs emacs1 BIN = sysbin device emacs _teco_ inquir diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 953642e3..649938be 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ A list of [known ITS machines](doc/machines.md). - PRUFD, list files on disk volume. - PTY, pseudo-tty - PWORD, replacement for sys;atsign hactrn that requires registered logins. + - QUOTE, prints out a random quote. - REATTA, reattaches disowned jobs to terminal. - RIPDEV, replacement for MLDEV for no-longer-existing machines. - RMAIL, Mail reading client. diff --git a/build/build.tcl b/build/build.tcl index da2c7b5b..6b623bbe 100644 --- a/build/build.tcl +++ b/build/build.tcl @@ -549,6 +549,10 @@ expect ":KILL" respond "*" ":midas device;jobdev dp_ar5:alan;dpdev 19\r" expect ":KILL" +respond "*" ":midas sys1;ts quote_sysen1;limeri\r" +respond "Use what filename instead?" "ecc;quotes >\r" +expect ":KILL" + respond "*" ":midas sys;ts srccom_sysen2;srccom\r" expect ":KILL" diff --git a/src/ecc/quotes.55 b/src/ecc/quotes.55 new file mode 100755 index 00000000..af306ce9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/ecc/quotes.55 @@ -0,0 +1,992 @@ +L 1,[1 In Boston they ask, How much does he know? + In New York, How much is he worth? + In Philadelphia, Who were his parents? + + - Mark Twain +] +L 1,[2 Always do right. This will gratify some people, + and astonish the rest. + + - Mark Twain +] +L 1,[3 When angry, count ten before you speak; + if very angry, an hundred. + + - Thomas Jefferson +] +L 1,[4 When angry, count four; + when very angry, swear. + + - Mark Twain +] +L 1,[5 Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. + + - Mark Twain +] +L 1,[6 Truth is the most valuable thing we have. + Let us economize it. + + - Mark Twain +] +L 1,[7 All the modern inconveniences. + + - Mark Twain +] +L 1,[8 Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a + Boston audience -- four thousand critics. + + - Mark Twain +] +L 1,[9 Base eight is just like base ten, really -- + if you're missing two fingers! + + - Tom Lehrer +] +L 1,[10 Vulgar of manner, overfed, + Overdressed and underbred; + Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, + Rude by day and lewd by night. + + - Byron Rufus Newton, + "Owed to New York" (1906) +] +L 1,[11 Purple-robed and pauper-clad, + Raving, rotting, money-mad; + A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh, + A wilderness of human flesh; + Crazed with avarice, lust, and rum, + New York, thy name's Delirium. + + - Byron Rufus Newton, + "Owed to New York" (1906) +] +L 1,[12 In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. + + Omar Bradley (1950) +] +L 1,[13 I am a member of the rabble in good standing. + + - Westbrook Pegler + "The Lynching Story" (1894 -) +] +L 1,[14 Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and + wealthy and dead. + + - James Thurber + "Fables for Our Time" (1940) +] +L 1,[15 Well, if I called the wrong number, + why did you answer the 'phone? + + - James Thurber + New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961) +] +L 1,[16 I love the idea of there being two sexes, + don't you? + + - James Thurber + New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961) +] +L 1,[17 He knows all about art, + but he doesn't know what he likes. + + - James Thurber + New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961) +] +L 1,[18 It is better to know some of the questions + than all of the answers. + + - James Thurber + (1894-1961) +] +L 1,[19 The flowers that bloom in the spring, + tra la, + Have nothing to do with the case. + + - William Gilbert + "The Mikado" (1885) + +] +L 1,[20 On a cloth untrue + With a twisted cue + And elliptical billiard balls. + + - William Gilbert + "The Mikado" (1885) +] +L 1,[21 There's a fascination frantic + In a ruin that's romantic; + Do you think you are sufficiently decayed? + + - William Gilbert + "The Mikado" (1885) +] +L 1,[22 The House of Peers, throughout the war, + Did nothing in particular, + And did it very well. + + - William Gilbert + "Iolanthe" (1882) +] +L 1,[23 When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, + and repose is tabooed by anxiety, + I conceive you may use any language you choose + to indulge in, without impropriety. + + - William Gilbert + "Iolanthe" (1882) +] +L 1,[24 For he might have been a Roosian, + A French or Turk or Proosian, + Or perhaps Itali-an. + But in spite of all temptations + To belong to other nations, + He remains an Englishman. + + - William Gilbert + "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) +] +L 1,[25 And so do his sisters, and his cousins, + and his aunts! + His sisters and his cousins, + Whom he reckons up by dozens, + And his aunts! + + - William Gilbert + "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) +] +L 1,[26 Darwinian Man, though well-behaved, + At best is only a monkey shaved! + + - William Gilbert + "Princess Ida" (1884) +] +L 1,[27 I can't help it. I was born sneering. + + - William Gilbert + "The Mikado" (1885) +] +L 1,[28 Mere corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude + to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. + + - William Gilbert + Pooh Bah, in "The Mikado" (1885) +] +L 1,[29 BUT: Red, am I? and round -- and rosy! May be, for I have + dissembled well! But hark ye, my merry friend -- hast + ever thought that beneath a gay and frivolous exterior + there may lurk a canker-worm which is slowly but + surely eating its way into one's very heart? + + BOAT: No, my lass, I can't say I've ever though that. + + DICK: I'VE thought it often. (All recoil from him.) + + BUT: Yes, you look like it! What's the matter with the + man? Isn't he well? + + BOAT: Don't take no heed of HIM, that's only poor Dick Deadeye. + + - William Gilbert + "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) +] +L 1,[30 DICK: From such a face and form as mine the noblest + sentiments sound like the black utterances of a + depraved imagination. + + - William Gilbert + "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) +] +L 1,[31 RALPH: I am poor in the essence of happiness, lady -- rich + only in never-ending unrest. In me there meet a + combination of antithetical elements which are at + eternal war with one another. Driven hither by + objective influences -- thither by subjective + emotions -- wafted one moment into blazing day, by + mocking hope -- plunged the next into the Cimmerian + darkness of tangible despair, I am but a living + ganglion of irreconcilable antagonisms. I hope I + make myself clear, lady? + + JOS: Perfectly. (Aside.) His simple eloquence goes to my + heart. + + - William Gilbert + "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) +] +L 1,[32 Books, the children of the brain. + + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "A Tale of a Tub" (1704) +] +L 1,[33 We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough + to make us love one another. + + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1711) +] +L 1,[34 A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1711) +] +L 1,[35 The burden of the incommunicable. + + - Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) + "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" + (1822-1856) + +] +L 1,[36 If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think + little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and + Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. + + - Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) + "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" + (1827) + +] +L 1,[37 The time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man. + + - Will Rogers (1879-1935) +] +L 1,[38 Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus! + We really look all right to us, + As you no doubt delight the eye + Of other hippopotami. + + - Ogden Nash (1902-1971) +] +L 1,[39 She should have died hereafter; + There would have been a time for such a word. + Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, + Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, + To the last syllable of recorded time; + And all our yesterdays have lighted fools + The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! + Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player + That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, + And then is heard no more; it is a tale + Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, + Signifying nothing. + + - Shakespeare (1564-1616) + "Macbeth" V, v, 17. +] +L 1,[40 Out, damned spot! out, I say! + + - Shakespeare (1564-1616) + "Macbeth" V, i, 38. +] +L 1,[41 Lay on, Macduff, + And damn'd be him that first cries, + "Hold, enough!" + + - Shakespeare (1564-1616) + "Macbeth" V, vii, 62. +] +L 1,[42 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, + That flattery's the food of fools; + Yet now and then your men of wit + Will condescend to take a bit. + + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "Cadenus and Vanessa" (1713) +] +L 1,[43 Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a + style. + + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "Letter to a Young Clergyman" (1720) +] +L 1,[44 Black as the devil + Hot as hell, + Pure as an angel, + Sweet as love. + + - Talleyrand (1754-1838) + Recipe for coffee +] +L 1,[45 [Of the Bourbons] They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing. + + - Talleyrand (1754-1838) + Letter to Mallet du Pan (1796) +] +L 1,[46 The United States has thirty-two religions but only one dish. + + - Talleyrand (1754-1838) + Attributed +] +L 1,[47 Tobacco is a filthy weed, + That from the devil does proceed; + It drains your purse, it burns your clothes, + And makes a chimney of your nose. + + - Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) +] +L 1,[48 But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly + understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his + ship alongside that of the enemy. + + - Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) + Memorandum to the fleet, off Cadiz (1805) +] +L 1,[49 One should always be a little improbable. + + - Oscar Wilde +] +L 1,[50 The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is + the last resource of those who know not how to dream. + + - Oscar Wilde +] +L 1,[51 Whenever you find that you are on the side of the + majority, it is time to reform. + + - Mark Twain +] +L 1,[52 Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it, + shall perish by it. + + - Samuel Butler +] +L 1,[53 One of the advantages of being disorderly is that + one is constantly making exciting discoveries. + + - A.A. Milne +] +L 1,[54 The world was made before the English language and + seemingly on a different design. + + - Robert Louis Stevenson +] +L 1,[55 You see things and you say "Why?" But I dream things + that never were and I say "Why not?" + + - George Bernard Shaw +] +L 1,[56 You think that because you have a purpose, Nature must + have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers + and toes because you have them. + + - The Devil (in Shaw's Man and Superman) +] +L 1,[57 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. + + - Oscar Wilde +] +L 1,[58 This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. + + - Churchill (attributed) +] +L 1,[59 The grammar has a rule absurd + Which I would call an outworn myth: + "A preposition is a word + You mustn't end a sentence with!" + + - Berton Braley (1882-1966) +] +L 1,[60 Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. + + - Wolcott Gibbs (1902-1958) +] +L 1,[61 Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. + + - Churchill +] +L 1,[62 What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual + state of inelegance. + + - Jane Austen +] +L 1,[63 For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie + sleekly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. + No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. + But see, even that is only appearance. + + - Franz Kafka (1884-1924) +] +L 1,[64 I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most + pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to + crawl upon the surface of the earth. + + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to Brobdingnag" + (1726) +] +L 1,[65 He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of + cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let + out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. + + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to Laputa" (1726) + +] +L 1,[66 I said the thing which was not. + + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to the + Houyhnhnms" (1726) +] +L 1,[67 So, naturalists observe, a flea + Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; + And these have smaller still to bite 'em; + And so proceed ad infinitum. + Thus every poet, in his kind, + Is bit by him that comes behind. + + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "On Poetry. A Rhapsody" (1733) +] +L 1,[68 She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. + + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "Polite Conversation" (1738) +] +L 1,[69 May you live all the days of your life. + - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) + "Polite Conversation" (1738) +] +L 1,[70 It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. + + - Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747) + Gil Blas (1715-1735) +] +L 1,[71 Facts are stubborn things. + + - Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747) + Gil Blas (1715-1735) +] +L 1,[72 Facts are contrary 'z mules. + + - James Russell Lowell + "Biglow Papers" (1862) +] +L 1,[73 Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, + To soften rocks, or ben a knotted oak. + + - William Congreve (1670-1729) + "The Mourning Bride" (1697) +] +L 1,[74 By magic numbers and persuasive sound. + + - William Congreve (1670-1729) + "The Mourning Bride" (1697) +] +L 1,[75 I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country. + + - William Congreve (1670-1729) + "The Way of the World" (1700) +] +L 1,[76 Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants. + + - William Congreve (1670-1729) + "The Way of the World" (1700) +] +L 1,[77 Possession is eleven points in the law. + + - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) + "Woman's Wit" (1697) +] +L 1,[78 Off with his head -- so much for Buckingham. + + - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) + "Richard III (altered)" (1700) +] +L 1,[79 Perish the thought! + + - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) + "Richard III (altered)" (1700) +] +L 1,[80 Stolen sweets are best. + + - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) + "The Rival Fools" (1709) +] +L 1,[81 A man that could look no way but downwards with a muckrake in his + hand. + + - John Bunyan (1628-1688) + "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678) +] +L 1,[82 And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. + + - John Dryden (1631-1700) + "Mac Flecknoe" (1682) +] +L 1,[83 Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency + know many masters who would be worthy valets? + + - Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) + "Le Barbier de Seville" (1775) +] +L 1,[84 If you are mediocre and you grovel, you shall succeed. + + - Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) + "Le Mariage de Figaro" (1784) +] +L 1,[85 You went to some trouble to be born, and that's all. + + - Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) + "Le Mariage de Figaro" (1784) +] +L 1,[86 Prefer geniality to grammar. + + - H.W. and F.G. Fowler + "The King's English" (1906) +] +L 1,[87 HACKNEYED PHRASES.... but their true use when they come into the + writer's mind is as danger signals; he should take warning that when + they suggest themselves it is because what he is writing is bad stuff, + or it would not need such help; let him see to the substance of his + cake instead of decorating with sugarplums. + + - H. W. Fowler (1859-1933) + "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" (1926) +] +L 1,[88 QUOTATION.... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used + before because they give his meaning better than he can give it + himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects + them to touch a chord of association in his reader, or because he + wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to + the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader + detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps + impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious + quotations being the surest road to tedium. + + - H.W. and F.G. Fowler + "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" (1926) +] +L 1,[89 It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of + work to do. + + - Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) + "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: + On Being Idle" (1889) +] +L 1,[90 The greatest invention of the nineteenth century wa the invention of + the method of invention. + + - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) + "Science and the Modern World" (1925) +] +L 1,[91 There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying + to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. + + - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) + "Dialogues of..." (1953) +] +L 1,[92 The vitality of thought is in adventure. IDEAS WON'T KEEP. Something + must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have + fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. + + - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) + "Dialogues of..." (1953) +] +L 1,[93 Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which + is capacity to act wisely on the thing aprehended. + + - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) + "Dialogues of..." (1953) +] +L 1,[94 Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic + enjoyment in recognition of the pattern. + + - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) + "Dialogues of..." (1953) +] +L 1,[95 Children, behold the Chimpanzee: + He sits on the ancestral tree + From which we sprang in ages gone. + I'm glad we sprang: had we held on, + We might, for aught that I can say, + Be horrid Chimpanzees today. + + - Oliver Herford (1863-1935) + "The Chimpanzee" +] +L 1,[96 The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great + height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make + people stumble than to be walked upon. + + - Franz Kafka (1884-1924) + "The Great Wall of China" +] +L 1,[97 There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring: + impatience and laziness. + + - Franz Kafka (1884-1924) + "Letters". +] +L 1,[98 Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. + It satisfies no normal need. I like it. + It makes you thin, it makes you lean, + It takes the hair right off your bean. + It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like it. + + - Graham Lee Hemminger (1896-1949) + "Tobacco" (1915) +] +L 1,[99 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two + opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the + ability to function. + + - Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) + "Tender Is the Night" (1933) +] +L 1,[100 Since those whose duty it was to hold the sword of France have + let it fall, I have picked up its broken point. + + - Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) + "Radio address" (1940) +] +L 1,[101 I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. + + - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) + From "Einstein, His Life and Times" (1947) +] +L 1,[102 The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not. + + - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) + Inscription in Fine Hall, Princeton. +] +L 1,[103 The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of + everyday thinking. + + - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) + "Physics and Reality" (1936) +] +L 1,[104 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. + It is the source of all true art and science. + + - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) + "What I Believe" in Forum. (1930) +] +L 1,[105 A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated + pernicious piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, + splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising + howling belowstairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, my + head is nearly off. + + - Edward Lear (1912-1888) +] +L 1,[106 Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. + + - P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) +] +L 1,[107 He's a little man, that's his trouble. Never trust a man with + short legs -- brains too near their bottoms. + + - Noel Coward (1899-1973) +] +L 1,[108 The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox -- the + unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. + + - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) +] +L 1,[109 His mind is a muskeg of mediocrity. + + - John Macnaughton (1858-1943) +] +L 1,[110 Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of + nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. + + - John Ruskin (1819-1900) +] +L 1,[111 Funny without being vulgar. + + - W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) + On Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's performance as + Hamlet. +] +L 1,[112 Very nice, though there are dull stretches. + + - Antoine de Rivarol (1753-1801) + On a two-line peom. +] +L 1,[113 I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a + giftless bastard! + + Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) +] +L 1,[114 Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that + is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. + + - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) +] +L 1,[115 You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. + + - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) +] +L 1,[116 From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I + was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. + + - Groucho Marx +] +L 1,[117 Clergyman: How did you like my sermon, Mr. Canning? + Canning: You were brief. + Clergyman: Yes, you know I avoid being tedious. + Canning: But you WERE tedious. + + - George Canning (1770-1827) +] +L 1,[118 Optimism, said Candide, is a mania for maintaining that + all is well when things are going badly. + + - Voltaire [Francois Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) + "Candide" (1759) +] +L 1,[119 [Bernard Shaw sent Churchill 2 tickets for the opening of his + new play with the invitation:] + Bring a friend -- if you have one. + [Churchill regretted that he was engaged, and asked for tickets for + the 2nd performance:] + If there is one. + + - Winston Churchill (1874-1965) +] +L 1,[120 They have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken + untruths; secondarily, they are slanderers; sixth and lastly, they + have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and + to conclude, they are lying knaves. + + - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) + "Much Ado About Nothing" +] +L 1,[121 Clare Boothe Luce [at doorway]: Age before beauty! + Dorothy Parker [gliding through]: Pearls before swine!@ + + - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) +] +L 1,[122 In the first place God made idiots; this was for practice; + then he made school boards. + + - Mark Twain (1835-1910) +] +L 1,[123 I am not an editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do + right and be good so that God will not make me one. + + - Mark Twain (1835-1910) +] +L 1,[124 Katherine Hepburn ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B. + + - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) +] +L 1,[125 This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be + thrown with great force. + + Tonstant Weader fwowed up. + + - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) + On "The House at Pooh Corner" in her column + "Constant Reader". +] +L 1,[126 [Asked to distinguish between a misfortune and a calamity] + If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if + anybody pulled him out that, I suppose, would be a calmity. + + - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) +] +L 1,[127 He has not a single redeeming defect. + + - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) + On William Gladstone +] +L 1,[128 He is a self-made man, and worships his creator. + + - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) + On John Bright. +] +L 1,[129 As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench, the Ministers reminded + me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of + South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes, not a flame + flickers ona single pallid crest, but the situation is still + dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes and ever and anon the + dark rumbling of the sea. + + - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) + On the Liberal ministry. +] +L 1,[130 How long will John Bull allow this absurd monkey to dance on + his chest? + + - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) + On Benjamin Disraeli +] +L 1,[131 He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a + municipal drainpipe. + + - Winston Churchill (1874-1965) + On Neville Chamberlain +] +L 1,[132 He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. + + - Harold Macmillan (1894-) +] +L 1,[133 His mind was a kind of extinct sulphur-pit. + + - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) + On Napoleon III. +] +L 1,[134 Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any + address on it? + + - Mark Twain (1835-1910) +] +L 1,[135 [Asked how he became a hero:] + + It was involuntary. They sank my boat. + + - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) + Quoted in "A Thousand Days" (1965) + by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. +] +L 1,[136 Achievement, n. the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. + + - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) + "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) +] +L 1,[137 Cynic, n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as + they are, not as they ought to be. + + - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) + "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) +] +L 1,[138 Edible, adj. good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm + to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a + man to a worm. + + - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) + "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) +] +L 1,[139 Habit, n. a shackle for the free. + + - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) + "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) +] +L 1,[140 Prejudice, n. a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. + + - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) + "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) +] +L 1,[141 Saint, n. a dead sinner revised and edited. + + - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) + "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) +] +L 1,[142 Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. + + - Minna Antrim +] +L 1,[143 Wit has truth in it; + wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. + + - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) +] +L 1,[144 The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. + + - Anna Letaitia Barbauld +] +L 1,[145 Man is a tool-using animal ... + Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. + + - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) + "Sartor Resartus" (1834) +] +L 1,[146 A whiff of grapeshot. + + - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) + "The French Revolution" (1837) +] +L 1,[147 [In a debate, Lord Sandwich confessed himself at a loss to + know the precise definitions; Warburton whispered back:] + + Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy. + + - William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester (1698-1779) +] +L 1,[148 The difference between Orthodoxy or My-doxy and + Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy. + + - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) + "The French Revolution" (1837) +] +L 1,[149 "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." + + - Voltaire (1694 - 1778) + "Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme" +] + +;;; Following from The Page A Day Wall Calendar (Workman Publishing, NY): + +L 1,[150 "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: + chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire." + + - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) + "Rhetoric" +] +L 1,[151 "Use it up, wear it out; + Make it do, or do without." + + - New England maxim. +] +L 1,[152 "Memory is the power to gather roses in winter." + + - Anonymous. +] +L 1,[153 "We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and + easy to yell. Waa-hoo!" + + - Zane Grey (1875-1939) + "The Last of the Plainsmen" +] +L 1,[154 "I find confusion always creative, + although it drives the crew crazy." + + - Louis Malle (1933- ) + Quoted in "Saturday Review" June 1982. +] +L 1,[155 "Anybody who is any good is dif from anybody else." + + - Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) + "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces" +] +L 1,[156 "There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." + + - Cicero (106-43 B.C.) + "De Divinatione" +] +L 1,[157 "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." + + - Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) + "Afterthoughts" +] +L 1,[158 "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." + + - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) + "Lady Windermere's Fan" +] +L 1,[159 "Strictly speaking, not touching on other subjects, + I must state about myself, in passing, that fate treats me + mercilessly, as a storm does a small ship." + + - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) + "The Cherry Orchard" +] +L 1,[160 "The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech." + + - Clifton Fadiman (1904- ) + Quoted in "Reader's Digest", Sept. 1956. +] +L 1,[161 "There is one difference between a tax collector + and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide." + + - Mortimer Caplan (1916- ) + Quoted in "Time", Feb. 1, 1963. +] +L 1,[162 "No great thing is created suddenly." + + - Epictetus (c. 50-120) + "Discourses" +] +;;; End of page-a-day bunch. + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/src/sysen1/limeri.1 b/src/sysen1/limeri.1 new file mode 100755 index 00000000..e41c5c77 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/sysen1/limeri.1 @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +TITLE LIMERICK PROGRAM + +VERSIO==.FNAM2 + + +TYOC==2 ; TTY OUTPUT CHANNEL + +.INSRT SYSENG;$CALL MACRO +.INSRT EAK;MACROS > + + +LIMERICK: + MOVE P,[-LPDL,,PDL-1] + .OPEN TYOC,[.UAO,,'TTY] + .LOSE 1000 + .SUSET [.ROPTION,,A] ; CHECK IF THERE IS A COMMAND LINE TO READ + TLNN A,OPTCMD + JRST RND + SETZM CMD ; ZERO THE COMMAND BUFFER + MOVE A,[CMD,CMD+1] + BLT A,CMD+LCMD-1 + SETOM CMD+LCMD ; -1 (NONZERO) WILL STOP WRITING INTO BUFFER + .BREAK 12,[5,,CMD] ; SUPERIOR WILL DEPOSIT INTO BUFFER + + MOVE D,[440700,,CMD] +SPACE: ILDB A,D ; IGNORE LEADING SPACES + CAIN A,40 + JRST SPACE + CAIN A,"* + JRST ALL + +NUMBER: MOVEI B,0 + CAIA +NUM1: ILDB A,D + CAIL A,"0 + CAILE A,"9 + JRST NUM2 ; NO. IS TERMINATED BY NON DIGIT + IMULI B,10. + ADDI B,-"0(A) + JRST NUM1 +NUM2: SOUT #TYOC,#%TJDIS,"C" + MOVE A,B + SUBI A,1 + PUSHJ P,PRINT + JRST QUIT + +RND: SOUT #TYOC,#%TJDIS,"C" + .RDTIME A, + PUSHJ P,PRINT + JRST QUIT + +ALL: MOVNI B,NLIMS +AL1: SOUT #TYOC,," +" + MOVEI A,NLIMS(B) + PUSHJ P,PRINT + AOJL B,AL1 + JRST QUIT + +PRINT: PUSH P,B + PUSH P,C + MOVM B,A + IDIVI B,NLIMS ; TAKE NO. MOD THE NO. OF LIMS WE HAVE + MOVE A,LIMTBL(C) + HLRZ B,A + HRLI A,440700 + $CALL SIOT,[#TYOC,A,B] + .LOSE 1000 + POP P,C + POP P,B + POPJ P, + +QUIT: .SUSET [.RXJNAME,,A] + CAMN A,[SIXBIT/./] + JRST DEATH + $CALL FINISH,#TYOC ; WAIT FOR OUTPUT TO REACH TTY + .LOSE 1000 + MOVEI B,50. + CAMN A,[SIXBIT/SOLONG/] + .SLEEP B, +DEATH: .CLOSE TYOC, + .LOGOUT + .BREAK 16,160000 + .VALUE + +LCMD==<80./5>+1 +CMD: BLOCK LCMD+1 + + +DEFINE L N,TEXT + %.TMP1==. + ASCII TEXT + %.TMP2==. + LOC LIMTBL+NLIMS + REPEAT N,[ + .LENGTH TEXT,,%.TMP1 +] + LOC %.TMP2 + NLIMS==NLIMS+N +TERMIN + +NLIMS==0 + +LPDL==20 +PDL: BLOCK LPDL + +LITRAL: CONSTANTS + VARIABLES + +LIMTBL: BLOCK 1700. + +.INSRT LIMS > + + +END LIMERI