excerpts from Vectors 2.3: Fifty Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays

10.        No one’s so entertaining as the one who thinks you are.

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16.        The way our walk changes entering a store or museum, slowing, widening a little, eyes sweeping level.  Foraging on the ancient savanna for something to eat, something to use.

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22.        Nothing dirtier than old soap.

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24.        Snakes cannot back up.

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27.        Nothing important comes with instructions.

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33.        For Sisyphus the trouble of pushing the rock uphill was worth it for the thrill of watching it smash all before it on the way down.

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50.        Closing a door very gently, you pull with one hand, push with the other.

—James Richardson (1950- )