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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread What's the meaning of today's quote? #193262 09/28/2010 4:13 PM Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1 lamaya stranger lamaya stranger Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1 No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place. -Isaac Babel, author (1894-1940)? We (a coworker and I) don't get it. What is the meaning of the "period in the right place"? Thanks Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the meaning of today's quote? lamaya #193263 09/28/2010 4:15 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water WELCOME, L. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the meaning of today's quote? lamaya #193265 09/28/2010 4:32 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont welcome, lamaya. my take is that stopping a thought at the right time can give powerful meaning to a sentence that otherwise might ramble on, losing its power. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the meaning of today's quote? Buffalo Shrdlu #193266 09/28/2010 6:55 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Joe Bob: Sue comes on as such a total loser when she takes that attitude with her friends. Ella May: You could have put that period a lot sooner, Joe Bob. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the meaning of today's quote? lamaya #193267 09/29/2010 12:08 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh Isaak Babel is one of the great 20th century Russian writers. Stalin had him and a bunch of other Soviet writers murdered in January 1940. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the meaning of today's quote? Buffalo Shrdlu #193269 09/29/2010 12:37 PM Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under Candy Pooh-Bah Candy Pooh-Bah Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu my take is that stopping a thought at the right time can give powerful meaning to a sentence that otherwise might ramble on, losing its power. Yes...thats how I see it too. If you remember telegrams....well they used the full word 'STOP' cause, any punctuation cost the sender more. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the meaning of today's quote? Candy #193270 09/29/2010 1:17 PM Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 20 crash stranger crash stranger Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 20 In physiology, a refractory period is a period of time during which an organ or cell is incapable of repeating a particular action, or (more precisely) the amount of time it takes for an excitable membrane to be ready for a second stimulus once it returns to its resting state following an excitation. It most commonly refers to electrically excitable muscle cells or neurons. Action potentials in neurons are also known as "nerve impulses" or "spikes", and the temporal sequence of action potentials generated by a neuron is called its "spike train". A neuron that emits an action potential is often said to "fire". Anyway..along the lines of censorship...knowing when to act and when not to act was my line of thought..... 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