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little lightning bolts
Jun. 23rd, 2007 01:14 amThe weather forecast says that on average tomorrow will be a bit cloudy but mostly sunny. It also has graphics of little lightning bolts during the afternoon.
Never trust an average. Or a weather forecast. Or both.
Tomorrow is the next episode of Doctor Who, penultimate for this season. I hope that I will not be disappointed.
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Our fathers had a plain sort of pity: if you will, a gross and coarse pity. They had their own sort of sentimentalism. They were quite willing to weep over Smike. But it certainly never occurred to them to weep over Squeers. No doubt they were often narrow and often visionary. No doubt they often looked at a political formula when they should have looked at an elemental fact. No doubt they were pedantic in some of their principles and clumsy in some of their solutions. No doubt, in short, they were all very wrong, and no doubt we are the people and wisdom shall die with us. But when they saw something that in their eyes, such as they were, really violated their morality, such as it was, then they did not cry 'Investigate!' They did not cry 'Educate!' They did not cry 'Improve!' They did not cry 'Evolve!' Like Nicholas Nickleby, they cried 'Stop!' And it did stop.
-- Introduction to 'Nicholas Nickleby', by GK Chesterton
Never trust an average. Or a weather forecast. Or both.
Tomorrow is the next episode of Doctor Who, penultimate for this season. I hope that I will not be disappointed.
---
Our fathers had a plain sort of pity: if you will, a gross and coarse pity. They had their own sort of sentimentalism. They were quite willing to weep over Smike. But it certainly never occurred to them to weep over Squeers. No doubt they were often narrow and often visionary. No doubt they often looked at a political formula when they should have looked at an elemental fact. No doubt they were pedantic in some of their principles and clumsy in some of their solutions. No doubt, in short, they were all very wrong, and no doubt we are the people and wisdom shall die with us. But when they saw something that in their eyes, such as they were, really violated their morality, such as it was, then they did not cry 'Investigate!' They did not cry 'Educate!' They did not cry 'Improve!' They did not cry 'Evolve!' Like Nicholas Nickleby, they cried 'Stop!' And it did stop.
-- Introduction to 'Nicholas Nickleby', by GK Chesterton
