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4. Juin 2003, 00:31:27

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Sujet: hoisted by my own petard

Sometimes we learn from our mistakes, & sometimes we don't even learn from our sucesses. Observe this recent win of mine:
#109725. Nice smothered mate, no?

But then later, came this: #101783. No need to finish that. Sometimes I wonder where my brain has gone!

At least it brought to mind the title of this little note, explained below.

“To be hoist by one's own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.”