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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

clanSkeen wrote:

> Oh,  I forgot to add that Tvo's best point on the survival plan was that
> part about lots of red wine.   The wisdom is irrefutable!
>
> "The grape whose logic absolute
> The two and seventy jarring sects confutes
> The enchanted alchemist that in a trice
> Life's leaden metal into gold transmutes"
>                  (From the Rubbaiyyat)
>
> James
>
>
> tvoivozhd---uncanny---the Rubaiyat is all that got me through Primary flying 
> school in Tulare, California.  I had the best of instructors, world-renowned 
> acrobatic pilots, even the best parachute-rigger I have ever seen. But the 
> washout rate was over 50% which was demoralizing.  I carried a copy of the 
> Rubaiyyat in my left rear pants pocket at all times.
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