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  1. "Looking at all this from the British point of view" As recorded by Kipling: "There were lads from Galway and Louth and Meath Who went to their death with a joke in their teeth," (from "The Ballad of Boh da Thone", whose rolling rhythms are echoed in American folk music) And by Tolkien: "As they walked [away from the night-battle where their orcish captors were being slain by the Riders of Rohan] they compared notes, talking lightly in hobbit-fashion of the things that had happened since their capture. No listener would have guessed from their words that they had suffered cruelly, and been in dire peril, going without hope towards torment and death; or that even now, as they knew well, they had little chance of ever finding friend or safety again." (from "The Two Towers", chapter 3 "The Uruk-Hai") Being able to hold balance your thoughts with mutually absurd extremes -- dancing with tragedy in the midst of pleasure and plenty, and greeting darkness with a grin and a joke -- is a gift from God.
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