J. R. R. Tolkien on Anniversary
1892–1973
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"I wish life was not so short," he thought. "Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about."
All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel,
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more Perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.