The last lines of Shakespeare’s 94th sonnet http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/94.html contain a
warning about how terrible it is when the advanced lapse -
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
The guru had oft drawn attention to those lines.
I pictured myself confronting him and quoting them.
That evening I visited my mother. As I arrived she was watching some police drama on BBC1. At one point a character said to another "sweetest things grow sourest by their deeds." Only that line was quoted.
I am confident that I had never heard it quoted anywhere before.
On March 26th 1997 I again encountered the "lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds" quote on TV, only a few minutes after I had been thinking of that same guru´s fallings off.
The guru had oft drawn attention to those lines.
I pictured myself confronting him and quoting them.
That evening I visited my mother. As I arrived she was watching some police drama on BBC1. At one point a character said to another "sweetest things grow sourest by their deeds." Only that line was quoted.
I am confident that I had never heard it quoted anywhere before.
On March 26th 1997 I again encountered the "lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds" quote on TV, only a few minutes after I had been thinking of that same guru´s fallings off.
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