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'She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain'
Louisa May Alcott
The Satrapy (C.P. Cavafy)
Too bad that, cut out as you are
for grand and noble acts,
this unfair fate of yours
never offers encouragement, always denies you success;
that cheap habits get in your way,
pettiness, or indifference.
And how terrible the day you give in
(the day you let go and give in)
and take the road for Susa
and go to King Artaxerxes,
who, well-disposed, gives you a place at his court
and offers you satrapies and things like that鈥�
things you don鈥檛 want at all,
though, in despair, you accept them just the same.
You long for something else, ache for other things:
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