tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post8466513810956071261..comments2024-03-29T21:21:59.553+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond wonders if the Oreo might be ready for Chinese values ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-51682293160129750272016-09-12T18:08:29.565+10:002016-09-12T18:08:29.565+10:00Shaofen Gao has been busy.Shaofen Gao has been <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/08/18/revealed-the-secret-donor-behind-children-of-israel-the-2nd-largest-ghost-corporation-funding-gop-super-pacs/" rel="nofollow">busy</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-7646690324062912792016-09-12T16:59:37.772+10:002016-09-12T16:59:37.772+10:00I dunno, Anony, I think I prefer "To his coy ...I dunno, Anony, I think I prefer "To his coy biscuit"<br /><br />Had we but world enough, and time,<br />This coyness, Oreole, were no crime<br />We would sit down and think which way<br />To walk and pass our long love's day.<br /><br />But I really prefer the concise one:<br /><br />They are not long, the days of wine and roses:<br />Out of a biscuit dream<br />Our path emerges for a while, then closes<br />Within a dream.<br />– Ernest Dowson, from "Vitae Summa Brevis" (1896).<br /><br />And so for the Oreole: tell 'er she's dreamin' (while we are nightmarin').GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-80164888824672568672016-09-12T15:13:53.824+10:002016-09-12T15:13:53.824+10:00...after the sabre-rattling
Say what? Whichever wa...<i>...after the sabre-rattling</i><br />Say what? Whichever way a Cookie crumbles it, paradise was already lost. <br /><br /><i>Such was that happy Garden-state<br />While man there walk'd without a mate: <br />After a place so pure and sweet, <br />What other help could yet be meet!<br />But 'twas beyond a mortal's share <br />To wander solitary there: <br />Two paradises 'twere in one, <br /><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/101/359.html" rel="nofollow">To live in Paradise alone.</a></i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com