Re: "If"

FFlores scripsit:

> And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
Horseshoes (the game, not the farm implement).

> If you can fill the unforgiving minute
> With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
It means, more or less, "If you can spend all your time
(60 seconds per minute) doing something worthwhile
("running the distance").

> I'm curious, also, about the things your cultures tend
> to associate with "being a man" (or a mature person in
> general). [Maybe that should go over to Conculture]
It's way overblown by my standards, at least.

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John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban.