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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409028" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Judging Distances</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not only how far away, but the way that you say it<br>Is very important. Perhaps You may never get<br>The knack of judging a distance, but at least you know<br>How to report on a landscape: the central sector,<br>The right of the arc and that, which we had last Tuesday,<br>And at least you know</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That maps are of time, not place, so far as the army<br>Happens to be concerned-- the reason being,<br>Is one which need not delay us. Again, you know <br>There are three kinds of tree, three only, the fir and the poplar,<br>And those which have bushy tops to; and lastly<br>That things only seem to be things.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A barn is not called a barn, to put it more plainly,<br>Or a field in the distance, where sheep may be safely grazing.<br>You must never be over-sure. You must say, when reporting:<br>At five o'clock in the central sector is a dozen<br>Of what appear to be animals; whatever you do, <br>Don't call the bleeders sheep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am sure that's quite clear; and suppose, for the sake of example,<br>The one at the end, asleep, endeavors to tell us<br>What he sees over there to the west, and how far away,<br>After first having come to attention. There to the west,<br>Of the fields of the summer sun and the shadows bestow<br>Vestments of purple and gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The white dwellings are like a mirage in the heat,<br>And under the swaying elms a man and a woman<br>Lie gently together. Which is, perhaps, only to say<br>That there is a row of houses to the left of the arc,<br>And that under some poplars a pair of what appear to be humans<br>Appear to be loving.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well that, for an answer, is what we rightly call<br>Moderately satisfactory only, the reason being,<br>Is that two things have been ommitted, and those are very important.<br>The human beings, now: in what direction are they,<br>And how far away, would you say? And do not forget<br>There may be dead ground in between.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got<br>The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture<br>A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers,<br>(Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,)<br>At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance<br>Of about one year and a half.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Reed">Henry Reed</a><div class=q>
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