> That night, the three of us were invited back to this young woman's > house. Her absent parents were both ceramicists and it showed. Every > possible spandrel was decorated with cup handles, clay faces, and other > abstract forms. The next morning we drank coffee in her kitchen and read > the sad news that John Griggs Thompson's lecture would be canceled due > to his poor health. > > The whole affair struck me as being a sort of anti-Aesopian fable. > > One where, if I needed a moral it would be > that one can get more honey with a poem, > one involving compost tea. > > or alternatively, that youth is a donut to be eaten on the spot.
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