Cat's life is a cheat and a disappointment:
everything is real,
and dreams are disappointing
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....anymore ideas?
P de P &Vile boris
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Subject: Re: Cheery New Years poem
Woman's life is a cheat and a disappointment:
everything is real,
and dreams are disappointing.
The fire to stoke, the cat to feed,
the floor to mop after the children's party.
The prize awarded for the English essay,
the scholar's degree and the shares in the company:
these things become regrets. Woman passes
from unreality to bloody reality.
;-)
Janet
> Man's life is a cheat and a disappointment;
> All things are unreal,
> Unreal or disappointing:
> The Catherine wheel, the pantomime cat,
> The prizes given at the children's party,
> The prize awarded for the English Essay,
> The scholar's degree, the statesman's decoration.
> All things become less real, man passes
> From unreality to unreality.
>
>
> -- T. S. Eliot, Murder in the
Cathedr
> al
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The choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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