I hope Larkin/Auden et alia are twisting in their respective burrows...
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Sent: Sunday, 14 January 2007 12:55 PM
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Subject: Re: The Hymn of Caliban
Very good!
The first six lines in particular remind me of Monty Python.
Janet
> The Hymn of Caliban
>
> Praise the world for what it is,
> a spinning gob of mud.
> Half its time in mindless drought,
> the other half in flood.
>
> Praise each creature on its pockstrewn face,
> from maggot unto ape.
(etc)
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The choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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