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"Stop trying to be Victor...

Submitted by Claus (not verified) on February 15, 2005 - 10:58pm.

“Stop trying to be Victor Hugo”: You couldn’t have chosen a worse example. Victor Hugo perfectly understood the value of brief communication as is illustrated by the following well known anecdote: When Les Miserables was published Hugo wanted to know how book sales were going, so he sent his publisher a telegram containing one letter “?” The publisher answered in the same style “!”

Brevity at its very best.

Details on the anecdore here: http://members.aol.com/cpntresan/hugo.html

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