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From: Beth & Ken <bethken@erols.com>
To: Triumph list <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:35 PM
Subject: Henry David Thoreau on list fueding..
>
> As I (drive) through the (esses), endeavoring to recover my tone and
sanity
> and to perceive things truly and simply again, after having been
> perambulating the bounds of this (list) and others all the week, and
dealing
> with the most commonplace and worldly minded men, and emphatically trivial
> things, I feel as if I had committed suicide in a sense, I am again
forcibly
> struck with the truth of the fable of Apollo serving King Admetus, its
> universal applicability. A fatal coarseness is the result of mixing in the
> trivial affairs of men. Though I have been associating even with the
select
> men of this (list) and the surrounding (lists) , I feel inexpressibly
> begrimed. My Pegasus has lost his wings; he has turned a reptile and gone
on
> his belly. Such things are compatible only with a cheap and superficial
> life.
>
> Henry David Thoreau
>
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