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The equal temperament of the typesetting machine and the just intonation of the sketchpad should be used to test and refine one another until the final answer sings.

Aunt Faith said you can't miss what you don't have. She always spoke in those sorts of terms and when I said to her she used a lot of clichés, she just replied that a good cliché hits the nail on the head.

Many of the old scribal conventions survive in typesetting today. The well-made page is now what it was then: a window into history, language and the mind: a map of what is being said and a portrait of the voice that is silently speaking,

Contemporary [ampersands] are for the most part uninspired, stolid pretzels: unmusical imitations of the treble clef

But poise is usually far more important than size -- and poise consists primarily of emptiness. Typographically, poise is made of white space.

[Justice H V Evatt] then said, 'I would like to do something myself. I would like to give you, personally, a scholarship to enable you to do law.'

We returned to Australia and I was sworn in as Governor-General on 11 July 1974. During an early period of relative well-being my wife said that after actual experience of the life she felt that, if the doctors were right in giving her a real chance of moderate health, she would enjoy it. Soon afterwards however she had a serious relapse and died on 9 September 1974.