Goldsmith Composed

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    But soon a wonder came to light,
    That showed the rogues they lied:
    The man recover’d of the bite,
    The dog it was that died.
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)

    In a universe that is all gradations of matter, from gross to fine to finer, so that we end up with everything we are composed of in a lattice, a grid, a mesh, a mist, where particles or movements so small we cannot observe them are held in a strict and accurate web, that is nevertheless nonexistent to the eyes we use for ordinary living—in this system of fine and finer, where then is the substance of a thought?
    Doris Lessing (b. 1919)