younger correspondents have no idea what any of us are talking about — Whereas we, with our minds like HAL and memories like whatsitsname, are firing on all intellectual cylinders…..Or, like Rolls Royce engines, firing once every lamp post.
“The philosopher Hegel pursued Truth like a beagle; / But he ran so much faster that he ran right past her.” Send not to know for whom the bell tolls….
Havoc addresses him as ‘Akbari’, which might be the vocative case of ‘Akbar’. Or this might be two other people entirely.
WikiP says that some 40 languages are spoken in Afghanistan, with Dari and Pashto in the majority. Interestingly, Pashto has split ergativity — news to me, dude.
“We’ll shout from the bow ‘Your days are numbered!’ / And like Pharaoh’s tribe, they’ll be drownded in the tide / And like Goliath, they’ll be conquered.”
Just seen your post, courtesy of the tardy notification service.
You can’t have expected anything sensible in reply, surely? Silence is a very pleasant gift, I think. Let’s assume that it springs from the man’s sudden self-awareness and shame. (Yes, I’m amazed that I could write such drivel….)
younger correspondents have no idea what any of us are talking about — Whereas we, with our minds like HAL and memories like whatsitsname, are firing on all intellectual cylinders…..Or, like Rolls Royce engines, firing once every lamp post.
“The philosopher Hegel pursued Truth like a beagle; / But he ran so much faster that he ran right past her.” Send not to know for whom the bell tolls….