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[cellio]

Why, oh why, is tulip season so short? It feels like they just showed up not long ago, and now they're fading. Oh well... on to something else, I guess! (I think the lilac bush is next to bloom, but I'm not sure.)
This weekend Dani and I joined some friends for a last-minute gaming

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[ellipticcurve]

This may be a silly gentile question, but does it have to be from the Torah? I'm personally fond of the Holocaust... poem? Prose poem? Thingy? that goes:

I have taken an oath: To remember it all, to remember, not once to forget! Forget not one thing to the last generation when degradation shall cease, to the last, to its ending, when the rod of instruction shall have come to conclusion. An oath: Not in vain passed over the night of the terror. An oath: No morning shall see me at flesh-pots again. An oath: Lest from this we learned nothing (Council 49).
-Abraham Shlonsky

I was pleased to note that I remembered most of it, though I'm not sure what "Council 49" means.

There's also the classic Martin Niemoller:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.

[cellio]

Thanks. I hadn't seen the Shlonsky quote before.