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The Singing-Woman From The Wood's Edge

What should I be but a prophet and a liar,
Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar?
Teethed on a crucifix and cradled under water,
What should I be but the fiend's god-daughter?
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With him for a sire and her for a dam,
What should I be but just what I am?

--Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poem quoted by browngirl

And a few posts later, graydon quoted:

Thinking about the vices has, indeed, the effect of showing precisely to what extent ours is a culture of many subcultures, of layer upon layer of ancient religious and class rituals, ethnic inheritances of sensibility and manners, and ideological residues whose original purpose has by now been utterly forgotten. With this in view, liberal democracy becomes more of a recipe for survival than a project for the perfectibility of mankind.

- Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices

Would like to set up SSH on a Windows computer

Any recommendations for a detailed hand-holding set of information?

I've got putty, but it times out in about 30 seconds.