The best part of copyreading today was coming across this quote from the
I Ching in a column this week:
"It is unlucky to be stubborn in the face of insurmountable odds."
The Chinese concept of
luck is a little different from ours. In the West, you're basically either born lucky or you're not. In the East, it can be "unlucky"--infelicitous--to do something stupid or counterproductive, like go and try and
fight the unbeatable foe.
Of course, what all this really makes me think of is the
Angel finale, which had
exactly the opposite theme.
I miss
Angel.
# posted by
Gerry Canavan @ 7:16 PM
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