Originally posted by Grampy Bobby* At odd hours of the day and night, toting around an internet communications tool pouch with too many or too few marks of punctuation.
* Failure to grasp what by now should be evident; inability to grasp nuanced inferences of what is obviously unclear; underestimating your
enemies as well as your genuine friends; undervaluing the right things; and getting 'too precious' (Harvard phrase) over the wrong things.
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* Seriously Uncool Thing to ever presume to see a thing steady and to see
it whole, sitting there upright without flinching as the bare bulb swings...
"QUANTUM LEAP
Prefer the pain
of knowing
to the pleasures
of ignorance,
the risk of being
right to every
temporal security
of being wrong.
Awesome concept,
faith alone.
Pascal wagered.
Einstein understood."
(From 'While Boston Slept', unpublished, circa 1980)