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Fact finding mission accomplished · Jul 16, 03:09 PM
Back from a recent fact finding mission, we are recovering from more than 10 different flights and the resulting jet lag. The problem with air travel is all the time spent in airports.
However, it’s a good chance to observe other people, the differences in toilet fixtures, bagage handling, terminal advertising and procedures among the different departure and arrival points.
This has nothing to do with the truth, but I wanted loyal readers to know that I have been busy hurrying up and waiting.
Stay tuned!
Here Aristotle sees the tendency to laughter as a force for good, which can also have an instructive value: through witty riddles and unexpected metaphors, though it tells us things differently from the way they are, as if it were lying, it actually obliges us to examine them more closely, and it makes us say: Ah, this is just how things are, and I didn't know it. Truth reached by depicting men and the world as worse than they are or than we believe them to be, worse in any case than the epics, the tragedies, lives of the saints have shown them to us. Umbert Eco