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I am in isolation...
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because I am being treated for cancer.
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My treatment imperils my health.
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Herein lies the paradox.
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John Donne would revel in it.
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I would revel in it,
if he wrote a poem about it.
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My students would flounder in it...
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because paradox is
too difficult to understand.
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"Think of it as a puzzle..."
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I would tell them, "an intellectual game."
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Or I would have told them...
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were it a game.
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Which it is not.
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"...threw death on else immortal us
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"If lecherous goats, if serpents envious
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"Cannot be damned
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"Alas, why should I be?
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"Why should intent or reason, born in me
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"Make sins, else equal,
in me more heinous?
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"And mercy being easy,
and glorious to God
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"in his stern wrath, why threatens he?
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"But who am I,
that dare dispute with thee?
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"O God. Oh! of thine only worthy blood,
and my tears