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Crambe repetita (7)

The 5th of April 2004, a Monday, at 8.18

Generally: cabbages, commonplace.

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What, bred at home! Have I taken all this pains for a creature that is to lead the inglorious life of a cabbage, to suck the nutritious juices from the spot where he was first planted? No, to perambulate this terraqueous globe is too small a range; were it permitted, he should at least make the tour of the whole system of the sun. Let other mortals pore upon maps, and swallow the legends of lying travellers…

– Alexander Pope,
Memoirs of Martinus
Scriblerus
, Ch. 2.

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