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DREAM: Roger Taylor ‘84 To my family and friends, and
you know who you are:
REALITY: Roger Taylor ‘04 Sometimes I get to feelin’
I was back in the old days -
Some people drink from the fountain of long ago
knowledge, others just gargle. The majority, When we were kids, when we
however, roll in the puddle of stupid. were young
- Hungarian Coat, Things seemed so perfect -
What Professor Are You Most Like? you know?
The days were endless, we
The highest form of worship is to be were crazy - we were young
yourself. The sun was always shinin’ -
- Alice Walker we just lived for fun
I thinkJKR has made it clear that Sometimes it seems like lately
Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut the W izarding W orld - I just don’t know
that held its ground. discovered feminism at least 2000 The rest of my life’s been -
- Coolsig years before the Muggles did... just a show
Otherwise Hogwarts would Those were the days of our
Ifl were a guy. have been founded by Godric lives
Lauren, on me G ryffindor and Salazar The bad things in life were so
Slytherin, while Helga few
Iborf iVflS -fbtn..„ People who are wrapped up in themselves H ufflepuff and Rowena Those days are all gone now
make small packages. Ravenclaw stayed home baking but one thing is true -
Hence, rather than have Harry - Ben Franklin, treacle fudge and having Tupper- When I look and I find I still
Potter taken for a transvestite,
Liberty’s Kids Caldron parties. love you.
we translated “jumper” as - Dave Hardenbrook - Queen, “These Are the
“sweater”. Days of Our Lives”
- Arthur A. Levine (American
edition “translator”) One of the things Ford Prefect had always
MARJORY found hardest to understand about humans
What have I always told you? was their habit of continually stating and
Never trust anything that can repeating the very very obvious, as in It’s a
think for itself if you can’t see Hint AARlT I l nice day, or You’re very tall, or Oh dear, you
where it keeps its brain? seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are
- Arthur Weasley, Harry Potter you all right?
and the Chamber of Secrets by COLLADO - Douglas Adams,
J.K. Rowling The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

I prayed, and prudence was given me;
I pleaded, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
I preferred her to scepter and throne,
and deemed riches nothing in comparison with her,
nor did I liken any priceless gem to her;
because all gold, in view of her, is a little sand,
and before her, silver is to be accounted mire.
Beyond health and comeliness I loved her,
and I chose to have her rather than the light,
because the splendor of her never yields to sleep.
Yet all good things together came to me in her company,
and countless riches at her hands.
If you want to know what a man’s - Wisdom 7:7-11
like, look at how he treats his
inferiors, not his equals.
- Sirius Black,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
And it came to pass that in
by J.K. Rowling
that time the Great God Om
spake unto Brutha, the
Toil? Patience? What kid fosters
Chosen One:
these values? Heck, I’d say most
“ Psst!”
adults when describing their best
- Terry Pratchett,
qualities don’t say, “ I toil well.” Small Gods ... This is now.
-Amber

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