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very apt!
eric
On Aug 18, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Karen Reeds <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I can't resist quoting a short poem, "Evidence," by Wendy Cope, published in the Times Literary Supplement earlier this year (March 9, 2012).
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> Karen
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> Evidence
>
> "A great deal of anecdotal evidence suggests that we respond positively to birdsong."
> Scientific researcher quoted in _The Daily Telegraph_ 8.2.2012
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> Centuries of English verse
> Suggest the selfsame thing:
> A negative response is rare when birds are heard to sing.
>
> _What's the use of poetry?_
> They ask. Well, her's a start:
> It's anecdotal evidence
> About the human heart.
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> Wendy Cope
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>> Try telling the juvenille mockingbird, whom I spent the first half of the
>> summer listening to deep in the night, that his amourous vocalizations
>> weren't song.
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