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March 09, 2006

If only I'd listened to my mother (and W.H.Auden):

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires
Or quizzes upon World-Affairs,
Nor with compliance
Take any test. Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.

- W.H. Auden, 'Under Which Lyre'
Full text here

—tom.

Posted at March 9, 2006 10:56 AM

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