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If you live long enough, it becomes obvious that everything's been "thunk" before. That if I really believe my ideas are novel and new then I am just not well read enough and need to go back, read something new.

At the best, I will learn something. At the least I will convince myself that I am in good company because I, too, had these thoughts!

Nothing much right, or wrong with either of these. It turns out even they are not original to me. Most people eventually think the same things in one way, or another.

Some people just have more nimble tongues and others sprightlier brains and others simply know when to keep their thoughts to themselves.

If I'm not careful I'll convince myself that there is no more reason for me to write these thots, except that I don't really write 'em to wow you. I do it to find what I think of myself.

Some nights that's more than others.