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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1732)	4/25/1999 10:22:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 2095

Blessed Is The Man Marianne Moore from Like a Bulwark 1956 who does not sit in the seat of the scoffer-- ...the man who does not denigrate, depreciate, denuncicate; ......who is not "characteristically intemperate," who does not "excuse, retreat, equivocate; and will be heard." (Ah, Giorgione! there are those who mongrelize ...and those who heighten anything they touch; although it ........................................................may well be ......that Giorgione's self-portrait were not said to be he, it might not take my fancy. Blessed the geniuses who know that egomania is not duty.) ..."Diversity, controversy; tolerance" -- in that "citadel ......of learning" we have a fort that ought to armour us well. Blessed is the man who "takes the risk of a desision" -- asks himself the question: "Would it solve the problem? ...Is it right as I see it? Is it in the best interests of all?" ......Alas. Ulysses' companions are now political -- living self-indulgently until the moral sense is drowned, having lost all power of comparison, ...thinking license emancipates one, "slaves whom they .................................................themselves have bound." ..........Brazen authors, downright soiled and downright spoiled, as ..........................................................if sound and exceptional, are the old quasi-modish counterfeit, mitin-proofing conscience against character. ...Affronted by "private lies and public shame," blessed is the ...........................................................author .....who favors what the supercilious do not favor -- who will not comply. Blessed, the unaccommadating man. Blessed the man whose faith is different ...from possessiveness -- of a kind not framed by "things which .....................................................do appear"-- ....who will not visualize defeat, too intent to cower; whose illumined eye has seen the shaft that gilds the sultan's ......................................................tower.