The Wren-box Problem Is Becoming More Acute

My Philosophy Of Life Can Be Summed Up In Four Words: It Can't Be Helped.

The Head Of A Pike, Served At Supper, Is Said To Have Caused The Death From Terror Of Theodoric The Goth, Who Imagined The Fish's Features To Be Those Of Symmachus, A Man He Had Just Killed. But For This Story, We Of Today Would Have No Idea What Symmachus Looked Like.

I Hear So Many Things About Who I Am Supposed To Be I Hardly Know What To Believe. I Am Willing To Tell All, But What Is It? Doubtless All These Myths And Legends Will Be Straightened Out Eventually, But It May Take Years.

[footnote:] Pliny The Elder Described A Whale Called "balaena Or Whirlpool, Which Is So Long And Broad As To Take Up More In Length And Breadth Than Two Acres Of Ground." This Brings Up Again The Old Question: Are The Classics Doomed? Our Ancestors Believed That Four Years Of This Sort Of Information Would Inevitably Produce A President, Or At Least A Cabinet Member. It Didn't Seem To Work Out That Way.

Aristotle Taught That The Brain Exists Merely To Cool The Blood And Is Not Involved In The Process Of Thinking. This Is True Only Of Certain Persons.