'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
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Usenet article <199710211647.JAA17957@wall.org> (1997)Larry Wall
And for the greatest movie artists where there is a unity of technique and subject, one doesn’t need to talk about technique much because it has been subsumed in the art. One doesn’t want to talk about how Tolstoi got his effects but about the work itself. One doesn’t want to talk about how Jean Renoir does it; one wants to talk about what he has done. One can try to separate it all out, of course, distinguish form and content for purposes of analysis. But that is a secondary, analytic function, a scholarly function, and hardly needs to be done explicitly in criticism. Taking it apart is far less important than trying to see it whole. The critic shouldn’t need to tear a work apart to demonstrate that he knows how it was put together. The important thing is to convey what is new and beautiful in the work, not how it was made — which is more or less implicit.
Pauline Kael
Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
J. D. Salinger
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. Lawrence
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan Perlis
Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God, because then you see more of a purpose in things. Even if you don't, though, it doesn't mean that there's no purpose. It doesn't mean that there's no goodness. I think that there's a virtue in being good in and of itself. I think that one can work with the world we have.
Lisa Randall
Wall, Larry
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