“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us,” Ralph Waldo Emerson famously claimed.
And the corresponding endnote:
000 "What lies behind us": widely attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, although the original source is unclear.
Um, unclear? Unclear to whom? The morons who compile quote clearinghouses? The query I decided on does not adequately reflect my scorn.
AU: Only properly vetted quotations may be used. In doing the research, one discovers that this quote was definitely not Emerson: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/01/11/what-lies-within/
Please recast both the main text and the note.
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Nice going and great post to start the weekend.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year.
ReplyDeleteI was re-reading some of your earlier work - Tornado Norm, Grams, the block tower. You're good.
I called you on 9/11, just after the first tower was hit; thankfully, you were alright. Or maybe I'm mis-remembering. Maybe I never called after all.
Or maybe you just didn't pick up.
And happy New Year to you, Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteWe obviously know each other from way back, but the Anonymous angle means I don't know whether to say (a) Thanks for thinking of me then, and thanks for the compliments or (b) Go eat flies, you creeper. I have few enemies, so I'm going to go with the former.
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