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Have you noticed with Chinese
restaurants how, the better the food,
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the more bad-tempered
the waiters?
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So much for my efforts
to impress you.
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I should have asked them
to give me a spoon. Look at you.
:23:18
Mmm.
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My grandfather used
to tell me a story about chopsticks.
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One night Confucius dreamt that he was
taken to visit the damned in hell.
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He was very surprised to see that hell
was a beautiful banqueting room...
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with the damned
sitting around the table,
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groaning under the weight of the most
delicious food he had ever seen.
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They were allowed to eat anything they
liked, but they had to use chopsticks,
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and the chopsticks
were five foot long.
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The damned were starving,
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staring in agony
at the uneaten food before them,
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knowing that even with all eternity
in which to solve the problem,
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it could not be done.
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And then Confucius
is taken to heaven.
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And heaven is an identical
banqueting hall...
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full of delicious food.
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The people around the tables
are happy and well-fed,
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but they, too,
must obey the same rule.
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The food can only be eaten with
chopsticks that are five foot long.
:24:14
The food can only be eaten with
chopsticks that are five foot long.
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Only in heaven,
they're feeding each other.
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Hold them a little higher.
You'll get more control.
:24:36
Story of my life. I'm always trying
to run before I can walk.
:24:53
Anne Levels was here.