KULDTIPP oli, on ja jääb!
Väga loodame, et uus konkurss leiab sama edu, mis eelmine.
NB!
Uue konkursi tuumaks saavad olla teoste tsitaadid (erinevates keeltes).
Kuna selle postituse pealkiri on ka tsitaat, siis peaks ära tooma selgitusi selle kohta.
Tuli välja, et lugu on üsna segane.
Lühidalt öeldes, Mark Twain pole seda samal kujul kunagi öelnud ega kirjutanud.
- esimene versioon
(Actually, in 1897, when reports of the illness of James Ross Clemens, a cousin, were somehow misconstrued to mean that Twain himself was lying at death´s door in London, he cleared up matters by telling the reporter who´d stoppe by to check on him that „The report of my death was an exaggeration.” The ´greatly´was added by Twain himself years after the fact in preparing an account of this incident. In his first draft he has himself directing the reporter to „Say the report is exaggerated,” but in later draft he scribbled „greatly” in front of „exaggerated.” And there was never a wire sent to a London paper, as the anecdote now has it.) allikas
- teine versioon
There are many variations of the "report of my death" quote. The original note was written May 1897:
