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At the risk of self-promotion. (I added line breaks)
"While Australia is superficially referred to as a continental nation, upon closer scrutiny, it is in fact an archipelago."
— Asher Judah
kb83
August 13, 2023, 4:21 pm
A tourist from old San Diego
Tried renting a big Winnebago,
To see all Australia,
He thought, (inter alia,)
But it was an archipelago.
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I wrote a limerick to this, inspired by Llapp’s information about Trotsky. But I thought surely it would appear in this comment thread, but it did not, so here it is (I saved it):
"Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points. " — Leon Trotsky
kb83
April 21, 2014, 9:27 am
who is the "him"?
tskaggs6
September 24, 2014, 11:34 am
I would guess Stalin. They didn't get on all that well you know.
kb83
October 15, 2015, 3:03 am
I verified your guess, tskaggs6. Well done! It was in an unfinished biography of Stalin by Trotsky.
LLapp
January 18, 2017, 3:34 pm
'He never talked about politics. He was a schnorrer! All he cared about was who would pay for his lunch!" - My grandfather, remembering Lev Bronstein during his Lower East Side days
Persephone59
December 12, 2017, 9:26 pm
I understand he was also lovers with Frida Kahlo, and moved in the same circles as she and her husband, Diego Rivera.
LLapp
July 15, 2018, 5:05 pm
He was deeply steeped in the arts. My grandpa knew him as part of his theater-going crowd.
Eureka
November 17, 2022, 6:44 pm
Amazing, LLapp!
There was a young fellow named Trotsky,
A Communist chap, not a Nazi,
"From each who can feed,
To me what I need,
It's y'all who are paying, it's not me"
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"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." — Blaise Pascal
dovid1946
June 2, 2015, 9:03 am
There was once a stripper who called herself 'BLAZE PASCAL'. She was probably some philosophy major who couldn't get a job philosophizing.
kb83
March 14, 2016, 7:29 am
There once was a stripper named Blaze, Her philosophy did all amaze, She danced like a rascal, And loved to quote Pascal,
LLapp
February 6, 2019, 7:32 pm
. . . Now she's tenured and done with that phase.
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More unabashed self-promotion. I added line breaks.
"What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?"
— Wystan Hugh Auden
kb83
July 15, 2022, 2:06 pm
A tenured professor of poetry
Sat under a spreading balboa tree
Said she to her class,
As they sat on the grass,
"How lovely it can be to know a tree."
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"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
— Alexander Pope
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kb83
February 21, 2022, 10:35 pm
I will try to pope-ify it:
A man should never be ashamed to own
He has been wrong, for thereby he has shown
Himself a learner who can say today,
That he is wiser now than yesterday.
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