<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124977" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Consolation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Darwin.<br>They say he read novels to relax,<br>But only certain kinds:<br>nothing that ended unhappily.<br>If anything like that turned up,<br>enraged, he flung the book into the fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">True or not,<br>I’m ready to believe it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scanning in his mind so many times and places,<br>he’d had enough of dying species,<br>the triumphs of the strong over the weak,<br>the endless struggles to survive,<br>all doomed sooner or later.<br>He’d earned the right to happy endings,<br>at least in fiction<br>with its diminutions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hence the indispensable<br>silver lining,<br>the lovers reunited, the families reconciled,<br>the doubts dispelled, fidelity rewarded,<br>fortunes regained, treasures uncovered,<br>stiff-necked neighbors mending their ways,<br>good names restored, greed daunted,<br>old maids married off to worthy parsons,<br>troublemakers banished to other hemispheres,<br>forgers of documents tossed down the stairs,<br>seducers scurrying to the altar,<br>orphans sheltered, widows comforted,<br>pride humbled, wounds healed over,<br>prodigal sons summoned home,<br>cups of sorrow thrown into the ocean,<br>hankies drenched with tears of reconciliation,<br>general merriment and celebration,<br>and the dog Fido,<br>gone astray in the first chapter,<br>turns up barking gladly<br>in the last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wislawa+Szymborska">Wislawa Szymborska</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124977" data-title="Consolation de Wislawa Szymborska" data-description="Darwin./They say he read novels to relax,/But only certain kinds:/nothing that ended unhappily./If anything like that turned up,/enraged, he flung the book into the fire./True or not,/I’m ready to believe it./Scanning in his mind so many times a..."></div> </div> </div>

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