It is nice occasionally to know your onions. Just occasionally someone asks me something and I know the answer. It doesn’t happen very often, but occasionally someone asks me a question and I know the answer. On those rare occasions, it is good to feel that, in one little corner of the sphere of human knowledge, you have a little tiny bit of knowledge and worth.
Oddly, this feeling seems to be with me less and less as I get older. As I get greyer, I seem to recognise the gaps in my knowledge more and more. Questions that once seemed straightforward now seem loaded with traps and pitfalls for the unwary. Every letter that I sign looks thin and lacking in detail.
Nightcap
15 years ago
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