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How can it be that a man
can sup his fill, and still all around him find emptiness and drowsiness,
if he must go to the grave this way, unattended? Yet certainly
there are some bright spots, and when you listen to the laughter
in the middle of these it makes for more than a cosmetic truth, an invitation
to chivalry ringed by the dump fires of our deliberate civilization that has
got some things going for it---
— Nov 18, 2023 03:32AM
can sup his fill, and still all around him find emptiness and drowsiness,
if he must go to the grave this way, unattended? Yet certainly
there are some bright spots, and when you listen to the laughter
in the middle of these it makes for more than a cosmetic truth, an invitation
to chivalry ringed by the dump fires of our deliberate civilization that has
got some things going for it---
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