tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123146842011-08-19T01:18:12.676-04:00"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert EinsteinThe Gnat's Trumpethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01122272089379742265noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12314684.post-84572123971667342232010-03-22T23:13:00.004-04:002010-03-22T23:19:50.245-04:00

I gradually became aware that I was sitting on a small cart. It was travelling slowly along a narrow concrete track heading down a hill.  I knew I had seen these types of carts and tracks before, but I couldn’t immediately remember what they were called or where I’d seen them. I thought about it for a few moments trying to work it out as my cart made its way down the hill and then it came to me

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I met my fiancée while we were both in college. Actually, come to think of it, met is probably not the right word. The word met implies an event, a discrete moment prior to which one does not know the person in question and after which one does. There was no such moment, none that remains in my memory anyway. A better way to describe my coming to know her would be to say that she gradually

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