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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Gray, Green, Gold
Goethe, Faust I, 2038-9 (tr. Walter Kaufmann):
Gray, my dear friend, is every theory, And green alone life's golden tree.
Grau, theurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum.