He has been struck by lightning, the unfortunate postilion, As scorch marks on his skull and feet indubitably show. Poor Albert Trott once struck a ball clean over Lord’s pavilion; No one has yet repeated this unprecedented blow. In seconds (twenty billion to the power of twenty billion) Vile entropy will put a stop to everything we know. The General Good is not the same as what is good for all. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceeding small. Praise-God MacArthur got the dumb bum’s rush from Harry Truman. The world, said Wittgenstein, is everything…
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