I post this, only as a warning about the types of nonsense that can arise when one has tummy ache and suffers from lack of sleep.


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I've just finished watching Possession (2002) a lovely film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, which I found not only entertaining, but also inspiring. It was beautifully directed and the cinematography is stunning.  It was on television as today's midday movie.

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I wish I had written it, but alas...

|How prone we are to sin; how sweet were made
The pleasures our resistless hearts invade.
Of all my crimes, the breach of all thy laws,
Love, soft bewitching love, has been the cause.
Of all the paths that vanity has trod,
That sure will soonest be forgiven by God.
If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
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