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We have learned to whittle the eden tree to the shape of a surplice peg, we have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. we know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, but the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; it's clever, but is it art?
-Rudyard Kipling
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We Have Learned To Whittle The Eden

Rudyard Kipling
We have learned to whittle the eden tree to the shape of a surplice peg, we have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. we know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, but the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; it's clever, but is it art?
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