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"As the Twig is Bent so Grows the Tree" by Donald R. Brann

"Be a winner--learn to release nervous tension by transforming spare time into constructive effort."

 

Or release the nervous tension by obsessive masturbation. Either works. So grows the tree from the bent twig.

 

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From a series of circa-1960s D.I.Y. books called "Easi-Bild" that were published by a fellow named Donald Brann. In the beginning of each one, he wrote a little homily that tried to link up his own Confucius-like wisdom with whatever Easy Bild project was at hand.

 

So there would be a couple of paragraphs where he waxed poetic about some general concept essential to the good life, and then there would be a paragraph where he'd try to make you think you'd never done better by yourself than you did the moment you decided, say, to purchase the Easy Bild book on building a plywood bar in your basement.

 

A tragically overlooked 20th-century Thoreau was Mr. Brann.

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Uploaded on March 10, 2010
Taken on March 9, 2010