Newness
Creating involves new arrangements of objects or of ideas.
science
I am ignorant and I vote
Sad that there are now so many people who take pride in their ignorance, where once it was a mark of a human being to take pride in knowledge, intelligence, and achievement.
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She shows them pearly white
The saying “as rare as hen’s teeth” only works if, now and then, a hen is born with teeth. But in this world, though not in the Age of Dinosaurs, the saying should be “as non-existent as hen’s teeth”.
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Oumuamua
Oh for heavens sake how can it already be nearly the end of twenty eighteen? The years are flashing past faster than that rock from another star that whizzed through our solar system to fast to be properly observed
Best keep it closed
There is not a religious believer on the planet who doesn’t reveal their ignorance of reality every time they open their mouth
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Words words words
How many millions of words have I written? Half a million in one book alone, other millions scattered from one end of my life to the other. It would be nice to think one or two will be remembered, else why did I bother?
Illusions intact
Probably just as well you can’t spend an hour with teachers last seen sixty years ago.
Apples for the teachers
Stan Richards, Mary Critch, Alan Strahan, Charlotte Bruce, are teachers now long forgotten by the world. But not by me.
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Or enough of it anyway
I began reading when I was three. Now, seventy years later, surely I have absorbed all the wisdom of the world?
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