Monday, December 17, 2012
Sometimes superstition works, Horatio
We're in a spell of serious weather lately. Snow, freezing rain, and today a big windstorm. Power went out at 8:30 AM. I heard a transformer pop, so I suspected it would take a while to restore. Got out the battery radio and candles, laid down and bundled up to avoid chills. When nap was over, power was still out and I was getting hungry. Pulled out the propane stove, hooked up the gas bottle,
and got ready to strike the flint.... Just then the power came back.
Sometimes superstition works, if you don't count on it and don't expect it to work.
I've always been prone to overlogication and overexplication. When I got into one of those theoretical moods, my father would quote Shakespeare: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
As always, he was right. Over the years I've learned to respect intuition and superstition far more than theory... provided the intuition and superstition are based on experience, not just hearsay like the "official" black cat, ladder and 13 stuff.
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and got ready to strike the flint.... Just then the power came back.
Sometimes superstition works, if you don't count on it and don't expect it to work.
I've always been prone to overlogication and overexplication. When I got into one of those theoretical moods, my father would quote Shakespeare: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
As always, he was right. Over the years I've learned to respect intuition and superstition far more than theory... provided the intuition and superstition are based on experience, not just hearsay like the "official" black cat, ladder and 13 stuff.
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