which is the story of Jesus casting out demons from humans into a herd of swine which, maddened thereby, plunge themselves to their swinish doom off a cliff. The touching love of the men of Gadara for their property - in this case, the swine - reminds me of some other people I know.
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We shall not, however, resign
Our trust in the high-heaped table and the full trough.
If You cannot cure us without destroying our swine,
We had rather You shoved off.
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Wonderful! It's going in my commonplace book.
Wow. A commonplace book. I thought they went the way of embroidery samplers and antimacassars.
You regularly drive me to the dictionary. "Antimacassars" indeed!
I live in the world of "O, Brother, Where Art Thou?"
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