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There’s an audio/video reference to this cup of coffee, and since some people want to know – inquiring minds make inquiries – here’s a picture of the mentioned cup of coffee. Slightly redundant. But then, slightly revealing, too. That makes it a coffee tease?

The audio file is here. The more evocative video (requires subscription).

“Today I have got myself out of all me perplexities; or rather, I have got the perplexities out of myself – for they were not without, but within; they lay in my own outlook.”
Marcus Aurelius (Book IX, chapter 13)

As a song referent? Or reverent? Try this.

“Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.”
Marcus Aurelius (Book IX, chapter 14)