"Daniel-San" (Rot13) wrote in message
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Thanks for the pleasant read. Yesterday (and it seems today) in the
Chicago area, we were treated to an amazing day, weather-wise. High 60s,
mild breeze, lots of rejuvenating sun. Just what a boy needs after
Wisconsin's trout season has ended....a day *perfect* for fishing. So, as
the jones built, I saw this posted. Not a total assuaging of said jones,
but close.

Well, you're in good company, anyway:

"The man's true life, for which he consents to live, lies altogether in the
field of fancy. The clergyman, in his spare hours, may be winning battles,
the farmer sailing ships, the banker reaping triumph in the arts: all
leading another life, plying another trade from that they chose....For no
man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids, but in the warm,
phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and storied
walls."--R.L. Stevenson

Quoted in, "Exuberance: The Passion For Life" by Kay Redfield Jamison,
Alfred A. Knopf, 2004, p. 86.

"Snoopy, " Jamison goes on to say, "dining by candlelight on the top of his
doghouse, with his stained-glass window and van Gogh below, would agree."


Wolfgang