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From: greg@irl.ise.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear)
Subject: Treading angels
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 21:00:35 GMT

In article <1991Dec9.201728.23521@ultra.com> ames!ultra!corin!keving@uunet.uu.net (Kevin W. Gurney) writes:
>Another KonnecTion I noticed was the scene where Kirk describes himself to
>Spock as one who "rushes in where angels fear to tread", which is in
>"Between a Man and a Woman" on TSW. Anyone know the original source for this
>line? Shakespeare perhaps?
>

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" from something by Alexander Pope,
I think.  Don't you remember Kate's usual answer to "where did you get the
idea for that?": "I read it in a book" (or as Kate would say, "I wed it in
a boooook").
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Greg O'Rear
Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida
Address: O'Rear@ise.ufl.edu