Ah,
the great leap of Faith. The ones you
get to hear about, of course, are the ones that don’t end up in long drops and
messy landings. History tends to skate
over those: the aeronautical pioneers who proved that it’s not possible to fly
simply by jumping off tall buildings flapping your arms like a bird. For every Wright Brother there are ten
thousand equally earnest believers who got scooped up and buried in jars, and
whose memories weren’t preserved by succeeding generations, because nobody
wants to admit they’re descended from an idiot.
(from Doughnut by Tom Holt)
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