> That night, the three of us were invited back to this young woman's
> house. Her absent parents were both ceramicists and it showed. Every
> possible spandrel was decorated with cup handles, clay faces, and other
> abstract forms. The next morning we drank coffee in her kitchen and read
> the sad news that John Griggs Thompson's lecture would be canceled due
> to his poor health.
>
> The whole affair struck me as being a sort of anti-Aesopian fable.
>
> One where, if I needed a moral it would be
> that one can get more honey with a poem,
> one involving compost tea.
>
> or alternatively, that youth is a donut to be eaten on the spot.

My takeaways: 

    "Life is what happens while you are making other plans"

and

    "It's spandrels all the way down?"



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