On Tuesday, June 30, 1992 at 1:12:39 AM UTC-4, ske...@skatter.usask.ca wrote:   
   > In "The Perfect Mate," Alexander said "the higher, the fewer" at least twice.   
   > What the heck did that mean?  Our station routinely chops two minutes    
   > from every episode, so we might have missed something.  Please email.   
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   > skeeter@skatter.usask.ca					no nifty .sig   
      
   So, 26 years later, and I come across this mysterious phrase again - not just   
   once, but twice. The first is in the title of a 1911 movie about a poor   
   prizefighter who falls for a rich girl and feels he's unworthy. Then he   
   receives an inheritance and    
   becomes afraid to betray his past. The second is that it's actually in the   
   Stephen King book, The Shining, in chapter 39. The voices in little Danny's   
   head ask Lewis Carroll's Hatter's famous riddle, "Why is a raven like a   
   writing desk?" and immediately    
   answer it with, "The higher, the fewer, of course! Have another cup of tea!"   
   If I remember Alexander's demeanor when repeating it correctly, my guess is   
   that this is where it came from. It still doesn't explain anything but it   
   could imply that Mrs. Troi    
   was reading The Shining to him - by far the most inappropriate lesson she   
   could have taught him!   
      
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