CHAT: Water and wine (was: Corpses)

Isidora Zamora scripsit:

> >Wein allein macht dumm,
> >das beweist der student am tische.
> >Wasser allein macht stumm,
> >das bewisen im wasser die fische.
> >Um nicht eines von beiden zu sein
> >trink' ich mit wasser vermischt mein wein.
>
> Unfortunately, I speak Danish, not German :)
The general idea is that wine alone makes you stupid, as the student
on the table proves, whereas water alone makes you mute, as the fish
in the water proves.  So being neither the one nor the other I drink
water and wine mixed.

(I apologize in advance for any blunders.)

--
In politics, obedience and support      John Cowan <jcowan@...>
are the same thing.  --Hannah Arendt    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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