HARRY'S FAVORITE PRINCIPLE OF PHYSICS
The Law of Least Effort NB. Harry loves work. He can sit and watch it for hours.
McLAUGHLIN'S BINARY BOTHERATION THEOREM
If there seem to be two ways of doing something,
your first choice is always the wrong one.
COROLLARY
Everything takes twice as long as you think it will,
even allowing for the fact that everything takes twice as long as you think it will.
In our household Harry makes all the decisions
─ Liliane just tells him what to decide
Anon (and Shakespeare) have anticipated some of Harry's finest thoughts
─ for example:
An optimist thinks that this is the best possible
world. A pessimist fears that this is true. Ants, too, form complex societies without recourse to reason Behind every great man is a woman — telling him what he is doing wrong Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same
reason. Love is grand; divorce is several hundred grand. I always wanted to be a procrastinator, but I never got around to it. If you develop kleptomania you should take something for it. Life not only begins at forty, it begins to show. So much to do
─ and so few people to do it for me. Why be Politically Correct when you can just be Right?
Underground Art
Now that, she said, really is art. You can almost smell the bison and hear them stampede. Nonsense, he said. The animals, they're drawn on top of each other, and the sizes are all wrong — that hunter with the spear, he’s smaller than a midget. Immediately her man appeared in a new perspective. Neanderthal! she thought. But all she did was pull her furs closer round her shoulders, saying: You might like to know you are witness to a revolution in interior décor, according to the Neolithic Yorker.

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