Why Do People Live In Outlandish Climates In The Temperate Zones?
Jaysus, sing it Henry. You said it.
"Because people are naturally idiots, naturally sluggards, naturally cowards. Until I was about ten years old I never realized that there were "warm" countries, places where you didn't have to sweat for a living, nor shiver and pretend that it was tonic and exhilarating. Wherever there is cold there are people who work themselves to the bone and when they produce young they preach to the young the gospel of work --which is nothing, at bottom, but the doctrine of inertia. My people were entirely Nordic, which is to say idiots."
(T.O.Cap., page 10 in my version.)
Man it's cold here. I must be an idiot.
"Because people are naturally idiots, naturally sluggards, naturally cowards. Until I was about ten years old I never realized that there were "warm" countries, places where you didn't have to sweat for a living, nor shiver and pretend that it was tonic and exhilarating. Wherever there is cold there are people who work themselves to the bone and when they produce young they preach to the young the gospel of work --which is nothing, at bottom, but the doctrine of inertia. My people were entirely Nordic, which is to say idiots."
(T.O.Cap., page 10 in my version.)
Man it's cold here. I must be an idiot.
5 Comments:
Brrrr!
Matt I don't get what "T.O.Cap., page 10 in my version." means?
Love it or leave it pinko!
Maybe just put on another sweater, hm?
Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.-ibid
One of the best first lines ever.
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Oh that ibid was such a character!
I think he invented the snowshoe...or the snowball...maybe it was the snowshovel...
Either way, he was no idiot!
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