I'd call it a 'very English' response, Dave, & well crafted too...
Doug (hoping youre feeling better now)
Quoting "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>:
> *Vespasian Cough*
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> *(after Shiki)*
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> The snake has grappled
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> my throat. I think I'm about
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> to re-enter stone.
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> As well my own respiratory illness and the Emperor Vespasian's last joke,
> this piece is loosely suggested by a famous poem, written shortly before his
> death from tuberculosis, by Masoaka Shiki (1867-1902):
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> hechima saite tan no tsumarishi hotoke kana
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> The snake gourd blossoms.
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> My throat is blocked with phelgm.
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> I am already a Buddha.
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> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
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