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Most people are only half-listening (lemmy.world)
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[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The meaning doesn't matter
If it's only idle chatter
Of a transcendental kind -
And everyone will say
As you walk your mystic way,
"If this young man expresses himself
In terms too deep for me
Then what a very singularly deep young man
This deep young man must be!"

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 5 points 4 months ago

What does it reference?

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Gilbert and Sullivan. "Patience; or Bunthorne's Bride"

It's a comic opera / musical

this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
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