Back in the saddle, if wobbly

250 words of Why Robbie Can't Dance.

(no subject)

"During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s, [Fang Lizhi] was persecuted and confined in a reeducation camp at a coal mine in southern Anhui province. It was this treatment that led him to specialize in theoretical astrophysics, which he later told me was 'the only field of physics I could pursue without equipment.'"

— Perry Link, "On Fang Lizhi (1936 - 2012)", New York Review of Books 10 May 2012

Scrapbooks

Moving means glancing at everything you own, which in my case includes a Punch cartoon from 1970 of Don Quixote remarking to Sancho Panza, "We must wait for a wind — I do not wish to stand accused of unprovoked aggression."