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Tea: Difference between revisions

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Add Pendell's corner (Dynamis)
Pendell's corner: verbatim (Dynamis, p. 53)
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| quote  = Tea is the slow Ally — the long brewing, the small cup, the patient afternoon. The Chinese have known her for four thousand years; the Japanese turned the brewing into a discipline; the British turned it into an empire. The polyphenols soften her caffeine; the theanine softens it more. She is the wakefulness that does not insist.
| quote  = The first bowl cleanly moistens my lips and throat;<br>The second banishes my loneliness;<br>The third chases through all dullness<br>To clarify every word I've ever read.<br>The fourth brings on a light sweat<br>That cleanses away life's troubles.<br>The fifth purifies my soul.<br>The sixth beckons me to the Immortals.<br>The seventh is my limit,<br>A light breeze breaks from my sleeves.<br><br>&mdash; Lu T'ung, "Song of Tea" (quoted in Pendell)
| volume = Dynamis
| volume = Dynamis
| voice  = curated paraphrase &mdash; replace with verbatim passage
| page  = 53
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