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Postby Andrew MacLean » Mon 06 Mar 2006 11:37 am

I thought wheelnut might appreciate a bit of Virgil

vidi lecta diu et multo spectata labore
degenerare tamen, ni vis humana quotannis
maxima quaeque manu legeret. sic omnia fatis
in peius ruere ac retro sublapsa referri,
non aliter quam qui adverso vix flumine lembum
remigiis subigit, si bracchia forte remisit,
atque illum in praeceps prono rapit alveus amni.

"I have observed that seeds stored away for a long time, however thoroughly they are looked after still deteriorate, unless the greatest possible human effort is used in selecting the best individually by hand each year. In the same way all things go to the bad, lose their power and slip backwards - it is nature's law. It's exactly like when a sculler is trying his utmost to propel his boat up a river with his oars. If he happens to relax his arms for a moment, the current sweeps him away headlong downstream."

Georgics 1

As with seeds, so with corneas. As with the sculler, so with the quality control of tissue for transplant .. let it get away and you go in entirely the wrong direction.

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Postby jayuk » Mon 06 Mar 2006 11:41 am

Andrew

Have you missed todays medication? :-) :-P or are the rose tinted specs still on? just kidding mate!


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Postby Andrew MacLean » Mon 06 Mar 2006 11:49 am

Jay!

I think this may be a generational thing. The study of Classical Languages was compulsory until it was virtually forbidden

Some of us wander about with fragments of Latin, Greek etc that surface unbidden at the oddest moments.

It is by reciting those fragments that we cultivate the impression of genteel eccentricity. :D

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Postby Louise Pembroke » Mon 06 Mar 2006 9:56 pm

Shall I start speaking Klingon or Borg?!
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Postby Andrew MacLean » Tue 07 Mar 2006 7:12 am

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Postby Louise Pembroke » Tue 07 Mar 2006 11:19 am

Resistance is futile you will comply!
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Postby jayuk » Tue 07 Mar 2006 11:27 am

wasnt that Terminator 3!!
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Postby Louise Pembroke » Tue 07 Mar 2006 11:47 am

No way! that's "I'll be back"
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Postby GarethB » Tue 07 Mar 2006 11:59 am

Where you going?
You only just got back :D
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Postby Louise Pembroke » Tue 07 Mar 2006 12:03 pm

Ah well, I can back & forth in the space-time continuum either by teleport or tardis...
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