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From: hope@gatech.EDU (Theodore Hope)
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Subject: Re: night of the iguana - excerpt
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Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 16:43:48 EDT
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In article <4764@pur-ee.UUCP> mj@pur-ee.UUCP (Slartibartfast) writes:
>

>	Anyway, I looked it up, and here it is.

>
>        How calmly does the orange branch
>        Observe the sky begin to blanch
>        Without a cry, without a prayer,
>        With no betrayal of despair.

>Mark A. Johnson - Purdue University Department of Electrical Engineering
>


Strange... I could have sworn that the old man says:


	How calmly does the olive branch	(olive, not orange)
	....
	....

It could be that the old man's accent and the fact that the TV / VCR which I saw it on
was less-than hi-fi made me hear 'olive.'  Has anyone out there also heard it this way?

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