Up: [[Story]] Dorothy Parker’s review of A.A. Milne’s **The House at Pooh Corner** She described Pooh and Piglet humming in the snow, then *Oh darn — there I’ve gone and given away the plot.* __________ > [!Orbit] A.J. Jacobs in *The Know-it-All: One man’s humble quest to become the smartest person in the world* > I remember being annoyed when a book came out a couple of years ago by a guy who drove cross-country with Einstein’s brain. Einstein’s legendary brain. Enough already. “I’m going to write a book about driving across the country with Darwin’s pancreas,” I told Julie at the time. “And after that, I’m taking the bus with Newton’s lower intestines.” > “You got to do what you gotta do,” she replied, her all-purpose response for when she thinks I’m engaging in crazy talk. (p. 202) > __________ Joke shared by [[Ashok Bedi]] in his course New Beginning, Jung Platform *If you fantasize about the castles in the air, you’re normal, creative. If you dream of living in that castle, that’s neurosis. If you start living in the castle in the air, then you’re psychotic. A psychiatrist collects rent from all three.* _____________ > [!Orbit] A.J. Jacobs in *The Know-it-All: One man’s humble quest to become the smartest person in the world* > You only need three rambunctious people to legally qualify as a riot. That’s all. __________________ Ann Patchett asks her father, a Los Angeles police detective, what made Charles Manson so powerful, so bewitching, that so many people followed him. *Those people would have followed parked cars*, my father said without drama or hesitation. It was just a fact. > [!user] Ann Patchett in *These Perfect Days* , p. 179 ____________ > [!Orbit] J.M. Barrie writing in *Peter Pan* about Captain Hook > The man is not wholly evil — he has a thesaurus in his cabin.