Potpourri

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Sunday afternoon,

Wet, cold and quiet------- at last the 'outlaws' have

kidnaped Helen and rode off toward Troy or Sedona,

whereas Chu and I danced the ' Tarantela.'^^^^[]-[]-[]--ha!

This of course in honer of the Spider-woman, and the

magic-spell she weaves, which leaves us to believe.

I do enjoy the company of women when women

are not being women, and tis true that women do

tolerate men when they are feeling generous.

If women didnt exist, all the money in the world would

have no meaning. ( But then we wouldn't be here.) ha!

Life is a Caberet my son, come to the Caberet, and

as would say, " The chessboard is the world;

the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules

of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. "

The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know

that his play is always fair, just, and patient.

But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a

mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

So you see there is truly no margin for error. We must learn

the lessons of life or pay the price. If learning really did replace

instincts rather than enhance and train them, then we would know

automatically, such as the fact that unfaithful mates can cuckold you.

Why bother to learn them? Why not allow the Baldwin effect to turn

them into instincts and spend a lot less time going through the long

and laborious business of adolescence?

If a bat had to learn to use its sonar navigation from its parents, rather

than simply developing the ability as it grew, or a cuckoo had to learn

the way to Africa in winter, rather than 'knowing' before setting off, then

there would be a lot more dead bats and lost cuckoos every generation.

Nature chooses to equip bats with echo-location instincts because it is

more efficient than making them learn.

True, we learn a lot more than bats and cuckoos do, I do suppose-----

( or at least some of us do )

Cuckoo, cuckoo! ----ah! ---who told you?

The tattered & torn

S.C.