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To: anatolfz
I teach occasionally -- used to be an adjunct professor in the local law school, I still sub in to my daughter's school to teach Ancient Greek, beekeeping, points of the horse, and similar arcane matters. (g) I was a history major undergraduate and that's still my first love, but law is pretty neat too. (Not all lawyers are bad. When I had to get an arthrogram on my knee -- this was before MRIs -- the doc asked me what I did for a living. I said, "I don't know if this is the time or place to reveal this, but I'm a lawyer." He yelled to the nursing assistant . . . "Hey, Charlie! Get the BIG needle! The RUSTY one!" I said, "Hey wait a minute, I don't sue doctors, I defend them!" (true). He replied, "Oh, they ALL say that when they get here." ) ;-D

Browning is a little uneven but his best work is wonderful. Bunch of nice ones here, this one's a good one:

Selected Poems of Robert Browning

310 posted on 10/30/2002 5:43:31 PM PST by AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
That's an excellent link - there's more there if you look around. A lot of those poets are strangely unread these days, when, I think, they might provide some comfort to people.

Someone wrote: "Whenever I read of some new thing, I go to see which ancient writer said it before", or something like that. Probably a conservative.

I've only ever had good experiences with lawyers. Usually when you need a lawyer you need a lawyer, and they can do some pretty powerful things - get your child back, protect you - so it's worth some money, but people envy them the money they make. Hence the anti-lawyer stuff. (And then hysterical lynch mobs don't care for them either.)

313 posted on 10/31/2002 4:18:48 AM PST by anatolfz
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