Just been reminded of this corker from Paul Valéry: "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
Not me, obviously, but quite a lot of you have this problem.
Alan Beattie
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2025-12-01 11:15:39 UTC
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