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Herewith, JIT a couple timeless Grooks of Piet Hein (some few hundreds are back in print! in English, I hear) Pity.. the essential drawings are missing here
..for those troubling post-adolescent years, when much of one's day is spent in the company of guinea hens wearing peacock feathers - as one longs perhaps, for free days amidst Honest non-degreed farm animals -
OMNISCIENCE
Knowing what
thou knowest not
is in a sense
omniscience.
CIRCUMSCRIPTURE
As Pastor X steps out of bed
he slips a neat disguise on:
that halo round his priestly head
is really his horizon.
NOTHING IS INDISPENSABLE
Grook to warn the universe against megalomania
The universe may
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed
if it didn't exist.
THE ULTIMATE WISDOM
Philosophers
must ultimately find
their true perfection
in knowing all
the follies of mankind
- by introspection.
