Learn Why The World Wags And What Wags It

"The best thing
for being sad,"
replied Merlin,
beginning to
puff and blow,
"is to learn something.
That's the only thing
that never fails.
You may grow old
and trembling
in your anatomies,
you may lie awake
at night listening
to the disorder
of your veins,
you may miss
your only love,
you may see
the world about you
devastated by
evil lunatics,
or know your honor
trampled in the sewers
of baser minds.
There is only
one thing for it then
---to learn.
Learn why the world
wags and what wags it.
That is the only thing
which the mind
can never exhaust,
never alienate,
never be tortured by,
never fear or distrust,
and never dream
of regretting.
Learning is the
only thing for you.
Look what a lot of things there are to learn."
--T.H. White
(from The Once and Future King )
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Tower of Set
Miles Davis: "Flamenco Sketches"
below Hermit Rapid
dome sweet dome above Hermit Rapid
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three mile island
octopus ballet