Hush, hush, whisper who dares
As inventions go, sliced bread wasn\’t much of one.
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Bon mots
No difference
“They\’re trying to kill me,\” Yossarian told him calmly. No one\’s trying to kill you,\” Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?\” Yossarian asked. They\’re shooting at everyone,\” Clevinger answered. \”They\’re trying to kill everyone.\” And what difference does that make?” – Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Odd
How odd it would be to have been born Japanese, or Nigerian, or American, or Finnish, or Peruvian, or Tibetan. Who would I have been?
No joke
Laziness is the mother of invention.* * Joke™️ – created and first performed in June 1965 to an appreciative audience of three Zoology Honours students.
Necessity
You don\’t begin life with an intellectual life, you must create one, invent one. Some may stay with that very first intellectual life throughout life, for others though, circumstances will require, demand, reinvention of a new intellectual life, then perhaps another, and another, necessity being the mother of those inventions. You may end up far
Appointment in Samarra
The course of a life, like the evolution of a species, only seems inevitable, predestined, in retrospect.
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Cinema Paradisio
Some cliches remain popular in spite of being rarely true. Take the one of the young person leaving home, a prophet without honour, seeking fame and fortune (or just fame) in the big wide world beyond the small village. In the myth it is this action that is the hard one, leaving the comfort and