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@@ -917,3 +917,71 @@ First you take a drink,
 then the drink takes a drink,
 then the drink takes you.
  -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
+%
+It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers
+that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts.
+Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always,
+somehow, be thanked.
+ -- Umberto Eco "How to Write an Introduction"
+%
+Let the victors, when they come,
+When the forts of folly fall
+Find thy body by the wall!
+ -- Matthew Arnold
+%
+unbeingdead isn't beingalive
+ -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_
+%
+nothing except the impossible shall occur
+ -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_
+%
+-tommorow is our permanent address
+and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
+we'll move away still further:into now
+ -- e.e. cummings "XXXIX" _1 x 1_
+%
+in Just-
+spring      when the world is mud-
+luscious the little lame baloonman 
+
+whistles       far       and wee 
+ -- e.e. cummings "[in Just-]"
+%
+life's not a paragraph
+And death i think is no parenthesis
+ -- e.e. cummings "Four VII" _is 5_
+%
+Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
+We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
+ -- William Saroyan _My Heart's in the Highlands_
+%
+Given that the odds of a miracle are one in one million, and events
+which could be a miracle happen every second, the odds of not seeing a
+miracle in a month are less than 8 in 100. Clearly miracles are not
+all that miraculous.
+%
+They say when you embark on a journey
+of revenge
+dig two graves.
+They underestimate me.
+ -- a softer world #560
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=560
+%
+I never meant to let you down.
+I thought for sure
+the attic lock would hold.
+ -- a softer world #562
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=562
+%
+I made a bunch of stickers
+to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels.
+"If you are reading this,
+ then you are awesome"
+ -- a softer world #569
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=569
+%
+I'm sorry about those late night emails.
+I only said those things because I was too drunk
+to be afraid.
+  -- a softer world #579
+     http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=579