XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: cuddly@mindless.com   
      
   On 9/8/2016 7:20 PM, brian mitchell wrote:   
   > Tang Huyen wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 9/7/2016 5:51 PM, brian mitchell wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> And speaking of existential melancholy...   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Sensitive, Seldom and Sad by Mervyn Peake   
   >>>   
   >>> Sensitive, Seldom and Sad are we,   
   >>> As we wend our way to the sneezing sea,   
   >>> With our hampers full of thistles and fronds   
   >>> To plant round the edge of the dab-fish ponds;   
   >>> Oh, so Sensitive, Seldom and Sad   
   >>> Oh, so Seldom and Sad.   
   >>   
   >> One could be forgiven for misreading "worm   
   >> our way".   
   >   
   > You, Sir, are not a True Man of Sentiment.   
   >   
      
      
   I can't remember Tang being like anything in the Chuang Tzu.   
   As I remember, a true man of sentiment is one retired and travelling   
   the beauty spots of his country..   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)