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While my computer was in the shop for the last week I was reading and came on a really fantastic paragraph that I think really shows the wisdom of ages, its from the book Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett, dont worry, no spoilers or anything
"The Patrician took a sip of his beer. 'I have told this to a few people, gentlemen, and I suspect never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, Im sure you will agree, and as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of natures wonders, gentlemen: mother and child dining on mother and child. And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. (I almost hesitate to add the ending since I think it doesn't quite match up with the rest of the quote but here it is) If there is some kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become this moral superior"
so there it is, so what other grains of wisdom has the escapist encountered out there in book, web, tv, movies, or someone yelling out during a night of drinking?
"The Patrician took a sip of his beer. 'I have told this to a few people, gentlemen, and I suspect never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, Im sure you will agree, and as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of natures wonders, gentlemen: mother and child dining on mother and child. And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. (I almost hesitate to add the ending since I think it doesn't quite match up with the rest of the quote but here it is) If there is some kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become this moral superior"
so there it is, so what other grains of wisdom has the escapist encountered out there in book, web, tv, movies, or someone yelling out during a night of drinking?
