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"I am just the first drop of water in the village"
she says quietly. "I believe it will rain after me".
--they spoke in their own voices/
and it was poetry.


27 posted on 01/27/2007 5:35:35 PM PST by supremedoctrine ("Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see"--Schopenhauer)
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To: supremedoctrine
["I am just the first drop of water in the village" she says quietly. "I believe it will rain after me".]

--they spoke in their own voices/ and it was poetry.

Illiteracy notwithstanding, this woman is a certainly a leader.

32 posted on 01/27/2007 5:54:44 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Well, it's 2007. Time to get ready for 2008.)
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Quite a profound and illustrative metaphor from an otherwise "illiterate peasant woman".

Tends to make me think that she has much more intelligence than the ones casting their perverted judgement.

40 posted on 01/27/2007 7:02:50 PM PST by perfect stranger
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