Nimbus1944

Not counting the Congressional Record, the Lorem Ipsum stands out as the most widely published and ancient piece of total drivel.

As amply described at http://www.lipsum.com, the Lorem Ipsum is the standard filler for any miscellaneous image of text, and dates back 500 years, when some printer extracted a jumble of words from an oration of Cicero.

Ah, but not until now has that jumble of words been re-jumbled into incomprehensible rhyme!

Now it can be set to music -- perhaps a nice Gregorian chant -- and inserted into classical performances that will send the audience home muttering to themselves, "It sounds so familiar!" and "Where have I heard that before?" and "Why in the world would anyone waste their time rhyming the Lorem Ipsum?"

Considering that my previous struggle to escape a bad case of writer's block culminated in posting Where Do The Plot Bunnies Go For The Winter?, I'd say I've let you off easy this time.

The three words left over from the rhyming process have become the title. I give you --

Ut Magna Culpa

Lorem ipsum dolor sit!
Exercitation elit,
Duis non cupidatat
Voluptate consequat;
Ut do tempor labore.
Esse sint, et dolore --
Aliqua, ut ullamco;
Veniam in commodo!
Eu reprehenderit
Adipisicing velit,
Quis deserunt laboris
Ea nostrud nisi est?
Nulla aliquip anim!
Ex officia minim
Eiusmod incididunt,
Consectetur amet sunt
Mollit enim laborum
In irure ad cillum;
Proident excepteur
Aute id pariatur?
Sed in dolor occaecat:
Qui dolore fugiat!

After that, what can I say, except -- amen, Deo gratias, and ©2005.

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It wouldn't be right to dream, while
Forgetting to live, it seems;
Nor would it be right to dwell on life
And yet forget our dreams.
-If There Were No Magicians

Pawn

Nicely done. I've used that website a number of times for filler text.

I enjoy the translation:

"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"

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