Original sentence: The perceived perversity of the universe has long been a subject of comment, and precursors to the modern version of Murphy's
Edited sentence: For example, in 1841 a newspaper in Norwalk, Ohio printed this verse (a parody of famous lines in Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh):.The perceived perversity of the universe has long been a subject of comment, and precursors to the modern version of Murphy's law are not hard to find