Friday, April 10, 2015

What you can do with ponies






In an absurd context that's not worth going into, I thought of a quote. I ascribed it to Mark Twain, as is the current tradition, and after it got its small laugh I wrote it down. I liked the quote. But I write a blog, not a twitter account, so it's hard to know what to do with a quote. Usually it's a matter of figuring out what it's the concluding sentence to.

Perhaps it would be simpler to have a twitter account for it. Perhaps I would be one of the finest tweeters on the Internet! I mean, I've already written:

The cream rises to the top, and dead things float.

and

Babies might not be so great, but they just get worse the more the years go by.

and

It's not that I don't hear God, it's that he seriously won't shut up!

And on and on.

But I know where all that leads.

Once upon a time I wrote some blog-like pieces and I thought "I bet if I really applied myself, of all the things I've ever done, I could have a brilliant blog."

And I'm afraid you'll find this a tad immodest, but I do indeed now write a mighty blog, a great blog, a blog for the ages.

But that doesn't make it popular, or well read.

Which brings me to that Mark Twain quote that's not by Mark Twain:

"Even if you have a flying pony, you still have to stable it somewhere."

And that would be the sad end of this post. But then I thought of a new, related, and better quote:


"Even if you have flying pony, only one person can ride it at a time."



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