josh blog

Ordinary language is all right.

One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.

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29 Jan '13 09:49:39 PM

When pets enter the room we don't think, there's an animal in the room! (But there are people with exotic pets.)

But there are plenty of places where we will say, 'How did a dog get in here?!'.

29 Jan '13 09:47:27 PM

'Territorial' is a way of saying how, where, and when, someone will not give way.

29 Jan '13 09:40:05 PM

Our efforts at cooperation are a joke compared to those of animals. Imagine them having a meeting.

29 Jan '13 09:35:29 PM

What kinds of investigations do animals undertake?

29 Jan '13 09:32:34 PM

It's hard to imagine animals handing down their customs; revering any.

29 Jan '13 09:30:33 PM

Animals don't care at all about our institutions.

29 Jan '13 09:25:13 PM

Often little animals will not get as much as they want; big ones will take whatever they please.

29 Jan '13 09:22:52 PM

Some animals don't get along.

29 Jan '13 09:21:46 PM

Animals can be genuinely happy to see you.