One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
Alec WilkinsonStichwörter: sailing ice jargon seamanship
Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.
Alec WilkinsonStichwörter: reason reasoning chesterton
I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia. It’s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.
Alec WilkinsonStichwörter: passion power guns tools exaltation militia
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
Alec WilkinsonStichwörter: explanation intuition self-knowledge
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