From William Marshall
Hi Myles,
A few Shaggy Dog letters on ANR recently.
Arguments can prove or disprove anything and like the self-fulfilling 23 Enigma more often than not are seated in confirmation basis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_enigma
Often it is a virtue to be “numerically challenged” (Re: Ian Tanner’s letter) then you are in no danger of luring others up the garden path and from their own feelings (Wenger is an expert at this).
Which brings me to Gilbert & Sullivan:
Captain.
Never mind the why and wherefore,
Love can level ranks, and therefore,
Though his lordship’s station’s mighty,
Though stupendous be his brain,
Though her tastes are mean and flighty
And her fortune poor and plain,
Sometimes change is needed purely for the sake of it.
You can say: I like this road, this town, the people but it is time to move on. Things may or may not work out, that’s always the risk and stasis contains it’s own diseases.
And when when you no longer care for this road, this town, the people, moving on becomes more of an imperative.
Myles says :
Britain has always been a nation of songwriters and poets:
True wit is nature to advantage dressed/ What oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed.
I could be a barrister with stratagems and ruses
I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises
I could be a writer with a growing reputation
I could be a ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station