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Feast of Saint Bridget of Sweden (old calendar)
Victoria, British Columbia
Dear friend,
We have had technical failures throughout this trip. Always some vital piece of equipment suddenly stops working exactly when we need it to. At the moment, both GPS aquisition and playback are working, so I expect the car to quit now.
Victoria is a city in which one could spend some weeks in a different pub every evening and not near the end of it.
Unlike Vancouver which is (as we have discovered) what happened when a bunch of ex-pat Londoners attempted to build Seattle, Victoria is what resulted when a bunch of ex-pat Seattlites attempted to build London.
It reminds me, for some reason, of this quote from G.K. Chesterton:
And that's all I have to say about that. Break time is over; back to work.
Victoria, British Columbia
Dear friend,
We have had technical failures throughout this trip. Always some vital piece of equipment suddenly stops working exactly when we need it to. At the moment, both GPS aquisition and playback are working, so I expect the car to quit now.
Victoria is a city in which one could spend some weeks in a different pub every evening and not near the end of it.
Unlike Vancouver which is (as we have discovered) what happened when a bunch of ex-pat Londoners attempted to build Seattle, Victoria is what resulted when a bunch of ex-pat Seattlites attempted to build London.
It reminds me, for some reason, of this quote from G.K. Chesterton:
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
And that's all I have to say about that. Break time is over; back to work.
