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  • I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
    I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
    I learn by going where I have to go.
    --Theodore Roethke
  • Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
    -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • I'm Nobody! Who are you?
    Are you—Nobody—Too?
    Then there's a pair of us!
    Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!

    How dreary—to be—Somebody!
    How public—like a Frog—
    To tell one's name—the livelong June—
    To an admiring Bog!
    --Emily Dickinson

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    Friday, August 18, 2006

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    Aack! I missed the welcome-back wagon. Good to see you blogging again!.

    End out-of-place comment.

    On-topic: The Benchley and the Japanese proverb combine nicely to describe my get-distracted-reign-it-in-again dissertation writing this week.

    Yeah, I noticed that, too. Isn't it fascinating how different we are? And, yet, we enjoy each other's blogs.

    I wass looking at that Japanese proverb the other day, trying to reconcile the two numbers. Surely, after the seventh time you fall down, you get up for the seventh?

    But then I figured that my assumption was that you started the sequence standing, and the assumption in the proverb was that you started prone, like a child figuring how to walk.

    Oh, dear, NelC, you're absolutely right! I never thought of that. I'm so glad you arrived at a solution!

    Something like the Japanese proverb appears in Proverbs 24:16.

    Love the last quote.
    Glad you're back: my bloglines is completely screwed, totally missed your return!

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