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|    mark lewis to Alexander Koryagin    |
|    live out    |
|    09 Apr 19 12:20:24    |
      REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5cac8ad0       MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 5cacc761       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: -0400       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 07-09-15        On 2019 Apr 09 15:06:48, you wrote to All:               AK> ALCHEMIST, PAULO COELHO               AK> -----Beginning of the citation-----        AK> "Why are you called the alchemist?"        AK> "Because that's what I am."        AK> "And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were        AK> unable to do so?"        AK> "They were looking only for gold," his companion answered.        AK> "They were seeking the treasure of their Personal Legend, without        AK> wanting actually to live out the Personal Legend."        AK> ----- The end of the citation -----               AK> Can we replace "live out" with something more common?              maybe a rephrase?               "They were seeking the treasure of their Personal Legend, without actually       wanting to live the Personal Legend."              but then one should also consider the time of the writing and how things were       said/written at that point in time...              i was helping a friend writing a book... i was proofreading and sending back       corrections... the problem was that i was correcting a lot of colloquialisms       that they had specifically put in to bring those speaking habits more to life       and make the characters more realistic for the area in which they lived...              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... If you shoot a mime, do you use a silencer ?       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 15/2 18/0 116/116 123/0 25 50 150 755 1970 135/300       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 226/17 229/107 354 426       SEEN-BY: 229/1014 240/1120 2100 5138 5832 5853 8001 8002 249/206 317       SEEN-BY: 261/38 280/5003 5006 5268 313/41 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364       SEEN-BY: 342/200 393/68 460/58 640/1321 1384 712/848 2454/119 3634/0       SEEN-BY: 3634/12 15 24 27 50       PATH: 3634/12 640/1384 221/1 280/5003 240/1120 5832 229/426           |
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