Musing.

Edit: This was all written as a memo on my BlackBerry. Now it's on my blog.

The Tomato and the Blueberry:

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit.
A fruit with ambitions far beyond those of the average fruit.
What do you do with your average fruit? Nothing, you just eat it. No one is ever going to found
an entire meal on a blueberry. Can you imagine it? Everyone would be so sick of them
within a week they'd starve to death. The blueberry has no versatility. The country with
a cuisine based upon a blueberry would be a country of lunatics, turned mad by the unwavering
sameness of their daily meals.
the Tomato > the Blueberry

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
Shakespeare: Hamlet Act II

"Much madness is Divine's Sense--To a discerning eye."
Emily Dickinson

"Information is of no value for its own sake, but only because of its personal significance."
Eric Berne

"We know what we belong to, where we come from, and where we're going.
We may not know it with our minds, but we know it with our roots."
Noel Coward* 'This Happy Breed'
*What a terrible last name!

"On such a full sea we now foat, and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar Act IV Scene III

"To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming, is only the end of life."
Robert L. Stevenson 'Familiar Studies of Men and Books"

"Ne knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
Francis Bacon 'Of Fortune'

"Of equality-as if it harm'd me giving others the same chances and rights as myself-as if it were not indispensabe to my own rights that others possess the same."
Walt Whitman 'Thought'

"To multiply the harbor is not to reduce the sea."
Emily Dickinson