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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">To Stefan </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">There is nothing unusual about Carl's "Ode".
Carl was an unusual person and he sat down and decided for his own pleasure and
to pass it out to his friends to compose a poem. There was no ulterior
motive. He did not have email, so there was no thought of forwarding it to
the web. He did it for his own pleasure.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Among the other things that he enjoyed were
three deck solitaire, a version that he invented and kept meticulous scores,
crossword puzzles, diacrostics (especially some very difficult ones which
required much knowledge of literature) and reading (until his eyesight failed).
I see no reason in trying to develop some ulterior
motive.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>