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Subject: [Leica] It was 29 years ago today
From: daniel.ridings at muspro.uio.no (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Fri Apr 30 21:51:41 2004
References: <BCEKKGNGDPMOIPMEJONBGEJOEIAA.phong@doan-ltd.com>

Phong,

I have a book to recommend (seriously):

_You can never go home again_ by Thomas Wolf (not Tom Wolfe).

You're an American now ... dig in! :)

Daniel

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Phong wrote:

> SonyC quoted:
> > Quand c'en est fini des malheurs
> > Quand un ami s?che vos  pleurs
> > Qu'elle est belle la libert?
> > La libert?
>
>
> Ah, sweet liberty.  But Ulysses got
> to return home after 20 years away,
> and his home and family was still all there:
>
> Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage,
> Ou comme celui-la qui conquit la toison,
> Et puis est retourne, plein d'usage et raison,
> Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son age !
>
> Quand reverrai-je, helas, de mon petit village
> Fumer la cheminee, et en quelle saison
> Reverrai-je le clos de ma pauvre maison,
> Qui m'est une province, et beaucoup davantage ?
>
> - Phong
>
>
> [I did my BEPC in 1972, and was quizzed on
> the Pleiades: Ronsard, his sidekick du Bellay,
> who authored the above sonnet, etc.
> I can still do Le Cid too:  Perce jusques au fond
> du coeur d'une atteinte imprevue aussi bien que
> mortelle, ...   :-)]
>
>
>
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