What was tedious was the prospect of the user’s guide. Instructions. My prejudice was that any machine that could not tell you by its very functioning how it should be used was not worth its keep.
“Before you have children, the novelist Fay Weldon once said, you can believe you are a nice person: after you have children you understand how wars start.”
― On Balance
― On Balance
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