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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:18:17 PST
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>Hi gang -
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>While cleaning out drawers, I came across something I had torn out of >a
Phelans catalog years ago. It is by Albert Borgmann from "Crossing >the
Postmodern Divide" 1992. Hope you enjoy it.
>Diana Benson/Joplin, MO
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>You cannot remain unmoved by the
>gentleness and conformation of a
>well-bred and well-trained horse - more
>than a thousand pounds of big-boned,
>well-muscled animal, slick of coat and
>sweet of smell, obedient and mannerly,
>and yet forever a menace with its
>innocent power and ineradicable
>inclination to seek refuge in flight, and
>always a burden with its need to be fed,
>wormed, and shod, with its liability to
>cuts and infections, to laming and
.heaves. But when it greets you with a
>nicker, nuzzles your chest, and regards
>you with a large and liquid eye, the
>question of where you want to be and
>what you want to do has been answered.
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