Special thanks to DS who observed that “Nothing is slower than the justice system” and tipped me off to the following grook by Piet Hein…

Put up in a place
where it’s easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
     T.T.T.

When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it’s well to remember that
     Things Take Time.

We’d do well to remember that as our legal case against Vestar directors and investment committee members Donal Curtin, Kelvin Syms, Simon Purvis, et al grinds through the depressingly slow wheels of justice!

A grook (“gruk” in Danish) is a form of short aphoristic poem invented by Piet Hein (1905-1996), Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author & poet. He wrote over 7,000 of them, most in Danish or English, published in 20 volumes.

His grooks first started to appear in the daily newspaper “Politiken” shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940. The poems were meant as a spirit-building, yet slightly coded form of passive resistance against Nazi occupation during World War II.

The grook are characterized by irony, paradox, brevity, precise use of language, sophisticated rhythms and rhymes and often satiric nature.

Here’s another that is pertinent to our case…

I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;

I carry
no malice
within my breast;

yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil

one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.

You can learn more about Piet Hein here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Hein_(Denmark)

Tags: Donal Curtin, grook, Kelvin Syms, Piet Hein, Simon Purvis, Vestar

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