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Also, there is surely no better time of year than Thanksgiving to dwell on the grace of accepted gifts!

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I am reminded of Paul Celan's gloss on Shakespeare's Sonnet 105-- it's perhaps not coincidental that Celan's version captures better than Shakespeare's original the need to *act* to join the beautiful and the good:

"Schon, gut und treu" so oft getrennt, geschieden.

In einem will ich drei zusammenschmieden.

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