02-05-2011, 09:45 PM
Among my many faults is the impatience that precludes me from the teacher's life.
I've banged up against this form of impenetrable illogic more than a few times in the past; when it manifests in a good person with noble intent, it is all the more distressing to contemplate.
In reading you, Albert, I'm reminded of the scientist who trained a flea to fly. "Fly, flea," said the scientist, and the flea would fly. "Fly, flea." Flying flea.
Then the scientist surgically removed the flea's wings. "Fly, flea," he said. But the flea did not fly.
Which prompted the scientist to note, "When one removes the wings from a flea, the flea becomes deaf."
I've banged up against this form of impenetrable illogic more than a few times in the past; when it manifests in a good person with noble intent, it is all the more distressing to contemplate.
In reading you, Albert, I'm reminded of the scientist who trained a flea to fly. "Fly, flea," said the scientist, and the flea would fly. "Fly, flea." Flying flea.
Then the scientist surgically removed the flea's wings. "Fly, flea," he said. But the flea did not fly.
Which prompted the scientist to note, "When one removes the wings from a flea, the flea becomes deaf."
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene