Well, it didn't matter. He'd had enough. He wasn't going to try to understand anything anymore. He was going home.
Except that wizards can never go home.
This is one of the ancient and deeply meaningful sayings about wizards and it says something about most of them that they have never been able to work out what it means. Wizards aren't allowed to have wives but they are allowed to have parents, and many of them go back to the old home town for Hogswatch Night or Soul Cake Thursday, for a bit of a sing-song and the heart-warming sight of all their boyhood bullies hurriedly avoiding them in the street.
It's rather like the other saying they've never been able to understand, which is that you can't cross the same river twice. Experiments with a long-legged wizard and a small river say you can cross the same river thirty, thirty-five times a minute.
Wizards don't like philosophy very much. As far as they are concerned, one hand clapping makes a noise like "cl."
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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As the old saying goes, “a thousand words is worth a picture.” So today’s show should be worth about 2.6 pictures.
Cecil G. Palmer - Ep. 95 - Zookeeper
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Maybe a petty rage but:
I very much dislike the story of the scorpion and the frog. (You know, scorpion needs a lift across the river and frog helps but scorpion stings frog halfway and they both die)
Like im pretty sure scorpions can control when they sting? Also we are not a scorpion, all our behaviour is learnt.
Yes, it's hard to change our basic behaviour but we can control when we act. And with help we can change our behaviour.
I just hate the idea that people can't change and that someone who's bad will always be bad or something.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the story, like "be careful around actual scorpions cuz if they feel threatened they might sting you" but I don't know. It's like a lot of those sayings that have lost part of their meaning when they lose part of their words (jack of all trades, blood is thicker than water, etc).
Idk I'm just bothered by it and idk if anyone else is.
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Glass half full? Glass half empty?
Nah man my glass is like this and the table legs are splintered
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Obsessed with characters who portray themselves as worse than they are. Who are lying to everyone including themselves about it. People generally assume if someone's lying about themselves they're trying to look better but sometimes they're trying to look worse. They attribute agency to where they had none, add intend to accidents, try to convince everyone that this is something they did instead of something that happened to them.
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my old man dog isn't great at hopping up on the couch anymore but he CAN do it and he will NOT accept help. it's almost adorable except when he just stands in front of me and barks at me to get out of "his" spot so that i'll stop what i'm doing, get up off the couch, and watch as he spends 5 minutes hyping himself up to jump into my newly vacant seat
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