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  "Dear Pat,

  You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, "Why don't you make something for me?"

  I asked you what you wanted, and you said, "A box."
  "What for?"
  "To put things in."
  "What things?"
  "Whatever you have," you said.

  Well, here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it's not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts- the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation.

  And on top of these are all the gratitude and love I have for you.

  And still the box is not full."

  John Steinbeck
  (inset from East of Eden)

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