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   From: tony.kingsbury@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/09/2016 10:50 AM, brian mitchell wrote:   
   > liaM wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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..   
   >   
   > I can envisage Tang wallowing in perfect contentment on the mudflats   
   > of the Charles River when the tide is out, like an old turtle serenely   
   > dragging its tail through the ooze while pondering the ineluctable   
   > modality of the visible. He's probably doing it now.   
   >   
   A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Sage. Rejoyce!   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)