Ah yes, ah yes!
Better hung for a wolf than a sheep
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From: Victoria Hughes <victo...@toryhughes.com>
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] bursting the placebo bubble
Ah….
This and Steve's preceeding note are the most useful, humane comment so far in
this thread.
Thanks, Robert.
Tory
On Apr 25, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Robert Holmes <rob...@robertholmes.org> wrote:
Steve's post made me think of the Roger McGough poem "Let me die a youngman's
death":
>
>
>
>Let me die a youngman's death
>>not a clean and inbetween
>>the sheets holywater death
>>not a famous-last-words
>>peaceful out of breath death
>>
>>
>>When I'm 73
>>and in constant good tumour
>>may I be mown down at dawn
>>by a bright red sports car
>>on my way home
>>from an allnight party
>>
>>
>>Or when I'm 91
>>with silver hair
>>and sitting in a barber's chair
>>may rival gangsters
>>with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
>>and give me a short back and insides
>>
>>
>>Or when I'm 104
>>and banned from the Cavern
>>may my mistress
>>catching me in bed with her daughter
>>and fearing for her son
>>cut me up into little pieces
>>and throw away every piece but one
>>
>>
>>Let me die a youngman's death
>>not a free from sin tiptoe in
>>candle wax and waning death
>>not a curtains drawn by angels borne
>>'what a nice way to go' death
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