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WT Sharpe · 01-25-2011, 05:50 PM

.....Then I stretched my hand out a little, and broke a small branch from a large thorn, and its trunk cried out: "Why do you tear at me?"
..........— Dante [Durante degli Alighieri] (c.1265 – 1321), Italian poet. The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto XIII: "The Wood of Suicides: Pier selle Vigne" (Antony S. Kline translation, ©2000).

01-25-2011, 05:50 PM	#1136
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....Then I stretched my hand out a little, and broke a small branch from a large thorn, and its trunk cried out: "Why do you tear at me?" ..........— Dante [Durante degli Alighieri] (c.1265 – 1321), Italian poet. *The Divine Comedy: Inferno*, Canto XIII: "The Wood of Suicides: Pier selle Vigne" (Antony S. Kline translation, ©2000).