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secretfanspace"The thing about illegally breeding fire-breathing possums is that you gotta keep a bucket of water handy."
*Those fools! Fire-breathing possums are greasy; water will only feed the flames! Oh, if only I could tell them of my empire...*
(Context: https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/1839.html?thread=2678831#cmt2678831)
Talk fandom! Making things! Reading, writing, drawing, whatever! Miscellaneous life chatter! Meme's happy to see you again!
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*Those fools! Fire-breathing possums are greasy; water will only feed the flames! Oh, if only I could tell them of my empire...*
(Context: https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/1839.html?thread=2678831#cmt2678831)
Talk fandom! Making things! Reading, writing, drawing, whatever! Miscellaneous life chatter! Meme's happy to see you again!
(start a comment thread by replying to this post)
Re: Books
Date: 2023-01-04 07:17 pm (UTC)* Chesterton's Fence (that is, the idea that before tearing down a fence, one should check why it was put up in the first place)
* He was conservative
* Wodehouse (or was it Waugh?) once described something noisy as sounding like "GK Chesterton falling on a tin roof" (it was probably Wodehouse. It sounds like Wodehouse)
Re: Books
Date: 2023-01-04 07:21 pm (UTC)Oh yeah https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/149124-the-drowsy-stillness-of-the-afternoon-was-shattered-by-what
(Also that reliable source Wikipedia claims he criticised both progressives and conservatives, but I find everyone else always describes him as conservative, so lol, some things never change...)