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The sempiternal secret mission
Of The Office of the Inquisition
Is to put the Church in a position
To rule by holy intuition.
In so doing, popes cannot fail
To grasp the devil by his tail,
And, merrily dancing to his tune,
Forget to use a longer spoon.
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*as in Ladies Who Lunch
That's very good, Mr Thompson. I love the word 'sempiternal'. TS Eliot used it to good effect in Little Gidding.
Midwinter spring is its own season
Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
Is, Some Problems with the Catholic Church and Other Things, a better title, or not?
Thank you for your note, Mr Munky. The sheer unmitigated erudition of your remarks has obliged me to reflect that, having mixed all the known metaphors for malign empowerment, and seeing that they don't particularly jar the ear, I have coined a title. I was tempted by Dinner for Two at Little Gidding, but it is off the main track and might enable another mocking quatrain (so I'm saving it).
I recall that there are devices which send mild electrical stimulus through slow-healing bones and that this accelerates mending, dubbed "capacititive coupling".
The most notable effect is that this type of electrical stimulation seems to cause bone cells to proliferate. There are other cellular effects of electrical currents on the broken bone, but by stimulating bone cells to divide, healing of bone is accelerated. The skin electrodes are worn at all times, and the battery is changed daily.
Thank you very much for that, mr t. i will certainly look into it. the main problem, at the moment, is muscle wastage and not really knowing enough about how often and for how long to do the basic excercises given to me at a&e. Anyway, enough! All will (presumably) be well.
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