On Dec 14, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> Really ?

I thought it scanned pretty well :-)

Or perhaps this might work:

“Let technocrats secretly despair of consensus;
  standards will remain."

If any topic is suitable for poetry, it is the diversity of time.

Rob
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>> On Dec 14, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Rob Seaman <sea...@noao.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 14, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>>> In ITU "For futher study" means "Forget it”.
>> 
>> Let judges secretly despair of justice:
>>  their verdicts will be more acute.
>> Let generals secretly despair of triumph;
>>  killing will be defamed.
>> Let priests secretly despair of faith:
>>  their compassion will be true.
>> If you don't believe me you can google
>>  ITU "for further study”.
>> 
>> – Leonard Cohen & Poul-Henning Kamp

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