Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:07:47 -0400 (08:07 CDT)

There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed a desire become a
great writer. 

When asked to define "great" he said, "I want to write prose that the whole
world will read, phrases to which people will react on a truly emotional
level: words that will make them stop and wonder, shudder, cry, feel great
pain and experience deep anger!"

He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.