X-Digest-Num: 271 Message-ID: <44114.271.1495.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 13:10:37 PDT From: "michael helsem" Subject: re: puzi banzu X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1495 Content-Length: 314 Lines: 13 #18 is intended to approximate a Russian proverb: "The truth has seven sides." ("A true thing is sevenfold.') #19: "The price of infinite precision is infinite verbosity." #20: (Echoing a Greek proverb: 'Many the thyrsus bearers, few theinitiated.') #21: "Not every tea-event is a tea-ritual."