virus: Re: quiet desperation
Hakeeb A. Nandalal (nanco@trinidad.net)
Fri, 06 Jun 1997 01:29:04 +0000
Eric Boyd wrote:
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> Reed Konsler wrote:
> >
> > This is very depressing. "quiet desperation"... that has a nice ring to
> > it... perhaps I'll make it the title of an essay sometime.
> >
> > ERiC
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> > This is from "Self-Reliance" by Emerson?
> > I'm not confident of this but if you check a Bartlett's book of quotations
> > it's in there, I'm sure, as the "life of quiet desperation" has had a nice
> > ring for generations of people.
>
> Really. I said the words myself. But I am interested in the fact that
> it's been said before. Maybe I have an older twin!
>
> ERiC
"Hanging on in quiet desperation
is the English way..."
- Pink Floyd
"Dark Side of the Moon" (1973)
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Hakeeb A. Nandalal
nanco@trinidad.net
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