Posted by Donna Adams on May 13, 1999 at 04:43:21:
In Reply to: Re: My all-time favorite sentence in a JV book: posted by Willem on May 11, 1999 at 13:16:28:
Hmmmm .....
Q: Why does a chicken cross a road?
A: Presumably the motivations and restraints in reference to the prospective action settle into an equilibrium which prompts the motion rather than the stasis.
Thank you, Jack, for utterly failing to insert appropriate commas, making this quite a mouthful - however a good way to convince a policeperson that you are intelligent, but unfortunately completely innebriated.
Excerpt from "The Planet Machine" a short story in the collection "The Augmented Agent".
From me.