Dry Pipe Systems

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    “A too-fluent green
    Suggested malice in the dry machine

    Of ocean, pondering dank stratagem.
    Who then beheld the figures of the clouds
    Like blooms secluded in the thick marine?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Blest are those
    Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled
    That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger
    To sound what stop she please.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)