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We
have great problems from our water, particularly teeth falling out
and hepatitis and cancer. But these days there is very little plague and
cholera,
and our sky is always blue. Report from Bukhara
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Altogether
elsewhere, vast
Herds of reindeer move across
Miles and miles
of golden moss,
Silently and very fast.
W. H. Auden
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I quali posti et senbinze di terre non son tratte niuna di la charta,
ma
sonno tochate chon mano et vegiute cholli ochi.
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. . . on this shore a tower
. . . is however,
. . . in this climate gold
. . . taking a rope
. . . is said they measured
Piri Re'is
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Myanmar people can easily get fish for dishes
by just fishing
in the fields and ditches.
In the early monsoon,
large edible
frogs
are abundant.
Farmers can gather
water clover or
go out with lamps at night
and catch
plump frogs.
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. . . a little wine for remembrance. . .
a little water for
the dust . .
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Miscellaneous
verses on time, hope, rich men, the quail and cocoanuts. |
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Creatures of a day,
what is a man?
What is he not?
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The Queen poor, the realm exhausted, the nobility poor
and decayed. Want of good captains and soldiers.
The people out of order. Justice not executed.
All things dear. Excess in meat, drink and apparel.
Divisions among ourselves. Wars with France and Scotland.
The French king bestriding the realm, having one foot
in Calais and the other in Scotland.
Steadfast enmity but no steadfast friendship abroad.
Armagil Waad 1558. |
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Dyirbal, an Australian aboriginal language,
has four linguistic categories for nouns:
- men, kangaroos, fishing line, the moon, storms, rainbows and booerangs
- women, dogs, fireflies, water, fire, stars and the hairy mary grub
- ferns, honey, cigarettes, wine and cake
- meat, bees, the wind, mud, grass, stones and language itself
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Ὁ χρόνος εἴναι μάρμαρο Ὁ χρόνος εἴναι χιόνι |
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. . . oh the butter was yellow,
and the little round parrots
fell out of the trees
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