Two Half Truths Do Not Make A

In The Social Equation, The Value Of A Single Life Is Nil; In The Cosmic Equation, It Is Infinite... Not Only Communism, But Any Political Movement Which Implicitly Relies On Purely Utilitarian Ethics, Must Become A Victim To The Same Fatal Error. It Is A Fallacy As Naïve As A Mathematical Teaser, And Yet Its Consequences Lead Straight To Goya's Disasters, To The Reign Of The Guillotine, The Torture Chambers Of The Inquisition, Or The Cellars Of The Lubianka.

Coincidence May Be Described As The Chance Encounter Of Two Unrelated Causal Chains Which-miraculously, It Seems-merge Into A Significant Event. It Provides The Neatest Paradigm Of The Bisociation Of Previously Separate Contexts, Engineered By Fate. Coincidences Are Puns Of Destiny. In The Pun, Two Strings Of Thought Are Tangled Into One Acoustic Knot; In The Coincidental Happening, Two Strings Of Events Are Knitted Together By Invisible Hands.

Laughter And Weeping, The Greek Masks Of Comedy And Tragedy, Mark The Extremes Of A Continuous Spectrum; Both Provide Channels For The Overflow Of Emotion; Both Are

We Cannot Unthink Unless We Are Insane.

The Evolution Of The Brain Not Only Overshot The Needs Of Prehistoric Man, It Is The Only Example Of Evolution Providing A Species With An Organ Which It Does Not Know How To Use.