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  • I've known the tax-men wait by a milch-camel till the foal was born and then hurry off the mother for arrears.

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • But the world, mind, is, was and will be writing its own wrunes for ever, man, on all matters that fall under the ban of our infrarational senses fore the last milch-camel, the heartvein throbbing between his eyebrowns, has still to moor before the tomb of his cousin charmian where his date is tethered by the palm that’s hers.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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