Re: OT-CHAT: Chaucer (was CULT: Transplanting)
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- Subject: Re: OT-CHAT: Chaucer (was CULT: Transplanting)
- From: J* I* J* <j*@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 19:42:40 -0600 (MDT)
J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey wrote:
>
> I apologize for cluttering the message. I've just always loved that turn of
> phrase "so pricketh them," and also the thought of Nature pricking our
> hearts in springtime so we cannot rest.
>
> Thank you for reminding me so politely that the entire world isn't peopled
> by silly ladies who had leisure time in their youth for memorizing the
> Norton Anthology.
Nonsense! It is the richness of the classics that add meaning to our
lives.
One of my favorites:
Twas brillig and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogroves
and the mome raths outgrabe.
JABBERWOCKY by Lewis Carrol
John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.
John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com
Fremont CA, USDA zone 8/9 (coastal, bay)
Max high 95F/35C, Min Low 28F/-2C average 10 days each
Heavy clay base for my raised beds.
