Tuesday 5 May 2009

Quote of the Day

From Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard, born this day in 1813:
'Our age does not stop with faith, with its miracle of turning water into wine; it turns wine into water.'

5 comments:

  1. To turn wine onto water all you have to do is drink it and wait.

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  2. For that matter, all you have to do is wait and wine will turn into vinegar.

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  3. And after waiting you can chuck some sugar in the vinegar, wait some more, and turn it into wine again (though not, alas, a premier cru I'd guess). Hmmn, I wonder if Kierkegaard had quite got his head round this one.

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  4. I deeply admire those sewage treatment works senior operatives who, in a rush of pride in their process, dip a beaker in and swallow the contents.
    Still eating Saturdays cakes Nige ?

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  5. No cakes left Malty no, but a lot of flowers around the place still looking pretty fresh... I once sat through a talk by the manager of the local sewage farm, whose only 'joke' was this: 'Sewage is my bread and butter.' How we roared...

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