Re: Discretionary characters (was: ... '[tilde]' Question

[Emery Snyder esnyder@xxxxxxxx]

The phrase originated, I have been told, with the art historian Aby Warburg
("Der liebe Herrgott steckt im Detail"). But I've never actually found the
place he wrote it.


At 11:56 PM 7.11.98 +0000, you wrote:
>
>I've always heard it with "details", plural. One also often hears
>"God is in the details", a phrase that for some reason I associate
>(wrongly, no doubt) with Nietzsche. Whatever the origin, experience
>(mine, anyway) shows that both variants are true. No Manichaean, I.
>
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>Carl Distefano
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Emery Snyder