https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 30 May 2026 20:24:06 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/78405/ https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/78405/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:01:03 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=78405 Since we have explored the maze so long without result, it follows, for poor human reason, that we cannot have to explore much longer; close by must be the centre, with a champagne luncheon and a piece of ornamental water. How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37
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Collected in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, ch. 2 (1881). ]]> https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/78405/feed/ 0 78405 https://wist.info/straczynski-joe/3763/ https://wist.info/straczynski-joe/3763/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3763 So we’re just in this maze for now, trying to figure out if that glint in the distance is daylight, or a Minotaur with an Uzi.

J. Michael (Joe) Straczynski (b. 1954) American screenwriter, producer, author [a/k/a "JMS"]
rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, “ATTN JMS: Warner Bros” (8 Dec 1996)
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