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To: firebrand
Ecclesiastes can be bleak at times, and remember it's Old Testament, but it's full of gems such as:

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

186 posted on 04/25/2016 6:26:39 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yes, it’s beautiful.

One of the most interesting classes, to me, in Shakespeare was when the professor pointed out how the iambic pentameter is regular when it’s a mundane line (And, in his mantle muffling up his face) and goes askew when there is emotion involved. The more emotion, the more it goes askew.


187 posted on 04/25/2016 6:35:55 PM PDT by firebrand
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