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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Today (September 29) is Michaelmas, which is the name   
   day of my Ph.D. supervisor, who in the European   
   tradition usually celebrates with a party.   
      
   In folklore it is also the day after which one is not   
   supposed to eat blackberries, and I think my naked   
   thorn hill climb was over blackberry vines, though   
   I don’t know for sure since I didn’t visit the site   
   when they were in season.   
      
   From Google, about the devil’s curse on blackberries:   
      
   "With an army of rebel angels he aims to take the throne of God, but is   
   stopped by Michael the Archangel and flung down to earth. After this, some   
   Christians believe that he landed on a thorny blackberry bush, and was so   
   enraged that he cursed, burned, stamped, spat, and even peed on it.”   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand” (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)