Klarinet Archive - Posting 001078.txt from 2000/07

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: [kl] Structures, strictures.....
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:44:27 -0400

<><> Tony Pay wrote:

Every task involves constraint
Solve it now without complaint;
There are magic links and chains
Forged to loose our rigid brains;
Structures, strictures, though they bind, Strangely liberate the mind."

<><> I'd attribute this, but I'm quoting from memory, and I've
forgotten who it's by.

Your memory is excellent, Tony. A little poking around on poetry sites
turned up the information (from someone whose net name is 'Angel') that
"solve it now" was actually written "solve the thing" by James Falen.
All the other words in your quote are 100% accurate.

Cheers,
Bill

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