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She's luckier than I am - I've nowhere else to go.Dr. Bill, you are a treasure here...and one of the main reasons I'm glad I found this place. My words will always be in ready supply for you, my friend. 
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W'ON, you and I agree resoundingly. A toast to dr. bill! [sloshing -e]
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I've nowhere else to go.
Please don't. Absquatulate, I mean. Promise I'll try and do more wordie stuff.
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When I first joined, I was upset to notice how many participants stayed only a short time, with no clue as to reason for their leaving. I was concerned that part of it was rudeness of regular users towards newcomers.We had some very regrettable unhappiness about hurtful PMs very recently. But caradea has put into words something that has long concerned me. Many members read a lot, and must encounter interesting words and phrases or whole passages that would make posts the rest of us could enjoy. Dear Helen has spoken out eloquently in favor of this. WO'N is an outstanding exemplar, as above.
From my august position as most senile citizen and cussed curmudgeon, I entreat you to bring more posts from the multitude of books you read.
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Here's another lovely one I just found (hi, Max!):
And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit...~Kahlil Gibran~
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Dear Bill, I'm one of the oppressively chatty people who has recently wandered in, though I do try to keep things in the proper subject area. I have a philosophy of how boards ought to work. That is, when you want to talk about something, you just bring it up. Sometimes people are not going to be interested in your proposed topic and sometimes they are. This bears strong resemblance to real life, because it is real life, or a piece of it. We are participants and not just observers, a board is a complex interactive environment and not just a word museum. (You being the most affable curmudgeon I have ever encountered, I trust you will not interpret this mild teasing as meanness.) I like to talk about words, but just as much I love to use them and see them used -- as in WON's slice of Emerson, but also in your responses and in those of others. There are lots of boards on the net. And for each of them, people come and people go. Interests change. People move on to new stages in their lives. Important demands compete for attention. I don't think comings and goings should make your community self-conscious. (The nastiness, which I've witnessed here but not experienced, is another issue. It might give some newcomers pause.) But to follow through on your suggestion to post what we have read, there's something I read this morning. (I'm not sure whether you had intended these should follow this thread or should start in a new one.) It's a quotation from a supplement to Capek's R.U.R. I found on the web. I don't recall reading any supplement in my copy, but I like this a lot, so I put it here for your amusement or vilification.
"Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds,
the most important thing is -- and that is the point I want to stress --
that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. . . .
I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict
of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally
serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible,
and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a
human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal
against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead
of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth
and vile selfish error."
(R.U.R._ supplement, p.11) I cut and pasted from http://www.u.arizona.edu/~gmcmilla/talk.html. It reminds me of that phrase I heard once about the opposite of a great truth being another great truth. (Niels Bohr?) I won't go into detail about why this resonates with me, because that would be too chatty, but I really do like it a lot. k
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Dear FF: I say again: I like your attitude, and I enjoy your posts. They have always been very interesting, not just mere chat. Don't change. Please continue as before.
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Thank you, Dr. Bill.
I'll just keep on keeping on then.
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In a similar, although more somber vein, this from a contemporary of Emerson:
So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
-- William Cullen Bryant
last stanza of Thanatopsis
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