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The point about postures and truths is an interesting insight though. I’m content to leave truths requiring a disciplined military bearing to others. The truths that concern me are the ones that can only be glimpsed when you’re slouching about mediocrely, whining and complaining
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Gravitas inhibits your ability to see more than undignified weakness though He walked in beauty, of the might of faultless poise, and sightless eyes; And the cutting edge of endless night, met his belly — now dead he lies With apologies to Lord Byron
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What I note is my own instinctive deference to his aesthetic sensibility without noticing it to be a simple manifestation of his reactionary longing. "Samurai mansion" indeed. Old polished wood is old polished wood.
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Dude was a towering genius but we can't all be one. He wasn't a hypocrite, that's for sure, he lived his philosophy, and he certainly wasn't mediocre. He wanted better bread than could be made of wheat.
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