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"With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree."
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

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Why I never get anything done:

"Andy was nothing if not methodical and so he had simply looked up every book that had ever been written on such topics, and every book mentioned in those books' bibliographies, yea, even unto four of five generations; checked out all of them that were available locally; and ordered the rest from ILL."
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

I'm not eligible for Interlibrary Loans any more, alas - but add in journal articles and ABE and that's basically what happens every time I get the hots for some new topic.

(This book also uses the phrase "a bad case of jangly ganglia" to describe the results of a punch in the head. "Best to leave that fancy stuff for later, and concentrate on more basic phylogenesis: it would be nice, for example, to be a vertebrate again.")