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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