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    If the sea were ink
    For the words of my Lord,
    the sea would be spent before the Words of my Lord are spent.
    Qur’An. The Cave 18:109, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)

    I’ve always had the notion that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again.
    —Walter Wellesley (Red)