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• Keeping his calves still. He cannot rescue him whom he follows. His heart is not glad.
• Keeping his trunk still. No blame.
• Keeping Still. Keeping his back still So that he no longer feels his body.
  He goes into the courtyard And does not see his people. No blame....
• Keeping his jaws still. The words have order. Remorse disappears.
• Keeping his toes still. No blame. Continued perseverance furthers.
• Mountains standing close together: The image of Keeping Still.
  Thus the superior man Does not permit his thoughts To go beyond his situation....
• The devil is making his pitch.
• Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in hea
  for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name" 1961...
• I found a good, stiff martini in a bar in Venice," announced the returned female tourist.
  His first name was Paolo....