SLSL Intro: "It was twenty years ago today..."

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       You may already know what a blow to
        the ego it can be to have to read anything
       you wrote 20 years ago...

cf

"So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got 
safely home except Ulysses, and he, though he was longing to 
return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, 
who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. But as 
years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he 
should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among 
his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the 
gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted 
him without ceasing and would not let him get home."

http://www.uoregon.edu/~joelja/odyssey.html#b1

That Neptune can be a real bitch, no?

respectfully

KEEP THE PEACE!
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