>Date: 8 Dec 92 09:30:03 GMT
>
>The Humanist Association of Canada Spring 1992 Newsletter
>contains the following item:
>
> For writers only -- Every writer has received rejection
> slips; too many of them for most. The "Financial Times"
> has quoted the "mother of all rejection slips", translated
> from a Chinese economic journal. It goes like this:
>
> We have read your manuscript with boundless delight. If
> we were to publish your paper, it would be impossible for
> us to publish any work of lower standard. And as it is
> unthinkable that in the next thousand years we shall see
> its equal, we are, to our regret, compelled to return your
> divine composition, and to beg you a thousand times to
> overlook our short sight and timidity.
.