>>Would you care for some more tea?
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>Alice's problem was not so much one of years, but of size....
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>Stop murdering the time.... And give me a clean cup.
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>My quote was not from L. Carroll, but was from B. Dylan-
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> Crimson flames tied through my ears
> Rollin' high and mighty traps
> Pounced with fire on flaming roads
> Using ideas as my maps
> "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
> Proud 'neath heated brow.
> Ah, but I was so much older then,
> 'm younger than that now.
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> Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
> "Rip down all hate," I screamed
> Lies that life is black and white
> Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
> Romantic facts of musketeers
> Foundationed deep, somehow.
> Ah, but I was so much older then,
> I'm younger than that now.
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> Girls' faces formed the forward path
> From phony jealousy
> To memorizing politics
> Of ancient history
> Flung down by corpse evangelists
> Unthought of, though, somehow.
> Ah, but I was so much older then,
> I'm younger than that now.
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> A self-ordained professor's tongue
> Too serious to fool
> Spouted out that liberty
> Is just equality in school
> "Equality," I spoke the word
> As if a wedding vow.
> Ah, but I was so much older then,
> I'm younger than that now.
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> In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
> At the mongrel dogs who teach
> Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
> In the instant that I preach
> My pathway led by confusion boats
> Mutiny from stern to bow.
> Ah, but I was so much older then,
> I'm younger than that now.
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> Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
> Too noble to neglect
> Deceived me into thinking
> I had something to protect
> Good and bad, I define these terms
> Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
> Ah, but I was so much older then,
> I'm younger than that now.
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>wade_smith@harvard.edu | shouldn't do to a god."
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