On 30/07/2010 8:36 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> "Stephen"<mca### [at] aolDOTcom>  schreef in bericht
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>> On 29/07/2010 12:55 PM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>> "Stephen"<mca### [at] aolDOTcom>   schreef in bericht
>>> news:4c51658d$1@news.povray.org...
>>>> I forget the ignorance of youth. ;-)
>>>
>>> That is way I pass the time on my barge, drinking mao tai and reciting
>>> Li
>>> Bai's poems...  ;-)
>>>
>
> (I was already far gone, writing *way* instead of *why*...)  ;-)
>

That makes a difference. No dilettante, you.

>
> Buy only wine, when you have money -
> Never buy land in the Southern Mountains!
> That draws tax collectors, to your dismay,
> Under the misty blue pine trees.
>
> Which are wise words by Li Deng.
>

Appropriate even today.

>>
>> All the birds have flown up and gone;
>> A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
>> We never tire of looking at each other -
>> Only the mountain and I.
>
> Ah! Very appropriate and one of those little Li Bai jems.
>

To maybe finish off, a haiku by Issa, suitable for Povers.

     O snail
     Climb Mount Fuji,
     But slowly, slowly!


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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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