Re: "If"

>If you can make one heap of all your winnings
>And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
I always understood this to be a reference to throwing dice.



>If you can fill the unforgiving minute
>With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
This one can be read literally. If you can run for sixty seconds in one
minute.



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Fabian
Rule One: Question the unquestionable,
ask the unaskable, eff the ineffable,
think the unthinkable, and screw the inscrutable.