Greatly moved by Stephen Fry's Open Letter to the Olympic committee recently published, I took his memoir, Moab Is My Washpot, and bumped it to the front of my reading list. I found something inside. It's not much, but it seemed relevant to me:
[I]f you're going to be a freak, be a complete freak, no point at all in goint at it half-cock
Now, there are those that will say, in this modern technologically sophisticated age, that no one is willing to accept any wisdom unless it comes superimposed onto a catching image, or photo of a cat. They're probably right.