Okay, you take the thirty thousand on the left

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.