enjoying reputation, sweet renown
"Enjoying Reputation, Sweet Renown," December 14, 2022 (#348)
title from The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva (700)
Roman Civilization: Volume I The Republic ed. by Naphtali Lewis & Meyer Reinhold (1959)
Droll Stories by Honoré de Balzac trans. by J. Lewis May (1978)
Round Up: The Stories of Ring W. Lardner by Ring Lardner (1929)
Kenneth Grahame: A Biography by Peter Green (1959)
Enjoying Reputation, Sweet Renown
Since the expulsion of the kings, the commonwealth, taking upon itself
swarming slums, its granite pavements, its foul fogs and polluted air,
went as white as a newly washed sheet, and stood there transfixed with anger
to put somethin' over on me and you'll get the same dose. I'm goin' now
on their property since these men left their homes on behalf of our
adult viewpoint in retrospect; after that the satirical persona only
was so beautifully ordered that it was a pleasure to behold the metal dishes
in such a nice way that you were kind of glad you had done wrong. Off duty
is well to be considered worthy of that rank by those into whose rank
is in striking contrast to the rural tranquility of the setting. We would
spot for a swell love duet near the end of the first act and I had a tune for
all appearances, united, but actually as far as ever from you know what.
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