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		IggleSniggle on May 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eric Carle has died This one line about hubris enters my thoughts unprovoked, an internal reproach, on occasion: -------- He saw a puddle and he tried to swerve-- Into the mud rolled the big fat truck, and his big important wheels got STUCK

fortylove on May 27, 2021 [–]

Even then, his heavy duty dump truck tires were stuck down deep in muck and mire.

WJW on May 27, 2021 | [–]

I'm not a native English speaker but even I can just hear the metrum in that sentence. Very cool.

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