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When I was young and chilling in Peter van Minnen's caravan, he read T S ELiot's "The  Wasteland" to me and then quoted the following from I know not where:

"A madman laughs at the strength of the weak
And drinks the tears in a milkdrop"

Took me another thirty years to figure out what he meant.

Something to do with the honey found in the belly of the lion when Samson  killed it ... (his vicious temper)

Something to do with his loss of hair (his mane or florid passions)

Something to do with the Philistines being killed with the jaw of an ass (the   skeletal laugh of the foolish in the face of adversity)

Something to do with the asses milk that Cleopatra bathed in before she and  Anthony went happily to their deaths (Isis and Osiris)

There any many mysteries made plain to the madman, but it is a painfully lonely  life that only the mad (and the foolish) understand - hence the tears in the  milkdrop of foolish innocence.

mad mike