Comments on: Harlequins, Part 6 http://secretvespers.com/2008/08/01/harlequins-part-6/ by Patrick Edwards-Daugherty Sat, 19 May 2012 11:20:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: MalikTous http://secretvespers.com/2008/08/01/harlequins-part-6/#comment-1654 MalikTous Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:03:51 +0000 http://secretvespers.com/?p=333#comment-1654 Pasteur and his mouldy petri dish, Becquerel and his leg burn from a pocketful of radium, the first sod to roll a heavy object over a log by accident vice dragging it all the way home... Unplanned and accidental events are commonplace progress. 'Insufficiency is the mother of invention... Mankind's first tool was a crutch, and it wasn't invented by a healthy man. Euryma (a synthetic goddess of invention) is a babbling idiot, and her mother is blind and walks backwards...' Pasteur and his mouldy petri dish, Becquerel and his leg burn from a pocketful of radium, the first sod to roll a heavy object over a log by accident vice dragging it all the way home… Unplanned and accidental events are commonplace progress.

‘Insufficiency is the mother of invention… Mankind’s first tool was a crutch, and it wasn’t invented by a healthy man. Euryma (a synthetic goddess of invention) is a babbling idiot, and her mother is blind and walks backwards…’

]]> By: Natasha http://secretvespers.com/2008/08/01/harlequins-part-6/#comment-1644 Natasha Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:01:45 +0000 http://secretvespers.com/?p=333#comment-1644 I love it when that happens! I love it when that happens!

]]> By: orinoco womble http://secretvespers.com/2008/08/01/harlequins-part-6/#comment-1632 orinoco womble Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:00:55 +0000 http://secretvespers.com/?p=333#comment-1632 They do work extremely well! I have really enjoyed them. Thought-provoking indeed. And yes, sometimes it is really an improvement when the plans you thought you made change on you completely. I am always suspicious of those who plan their lives out to the nth degree--and make it work that way. How do they manage to control every contingency, unless what they're actually doing is closing out every possible variable? My life is nothing like what I had planned so hopefully in my youth. Nor indeed in the beginning of my married life. But it's good in ways I couldn't have imagined. They do work extremely well! I have really enjoyed them. Thought-provoking indeed.

And yes, sometimes it is really an improvement when the plans you thought you made change on you completely. I am always suspicious of those who plan their lives out to the nth degree–and make it work that way. How do they manage to control every contingency, unless what they’re actually doing is closing out every possible variable?

My life is nothing like what I had planned so hopefully in my youth. Nor indeed in the beginning of my married life. But it’s good in ways I couldn’t have imagined.

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