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[confused2]

In times of war it sometimes turns out that the number of men available can exceed the number of weapons available. At such a time a regiment were equipped with broomsticks and trained to make the sound of the weapon firing.
In the battlefield the regiment held the line for several days until...
Over the parapet they saw the enemy advancing.
"Bang.Bang.Bang.Bang." - absolutely no effect.
"DudaDudaDudaDudaDuda."- even their clothes pole had no effect.
In the face of the inevitable advance they eventually ceased fire.
Louder and louder as the enemy advanced they heard
"Clank, Clank, I'm a tank."
"Clank, Clank, I'm a tank."
"Clank, Clank, I'm a tank."

As it happens this story was told to me by a drug dealer.
We both had evidence that this town wasn't big enough for both of us.
So.
Showdown.
Given the total absence of weapons or any threat whatsoever what can he say?
He said...
"If you shop people like me to the police and we don't the supply drugs that people want then the Mafia will move in and the Mafia really will have guns. Your choice. A free choice.".
I didn't go with the Mafia option.

[Magical Realist]

"The DNA in your cells is packaged into 46 chromosomes in the nucleus. As well as being a naturally helical molecule, DNA is supercoiled using enzymes so that it takes up less space.

Try holding a piece of string at one end, and twisting the other. As you add twist, the string creates coils of coils; and eventually, coils of coils of coils. Your DNA is arranged as a coil of coils of coils of coils of coils! This allows the 3 billion base pairs in each cell to fit into a space just 6 microns across.

If you stretched the DNA in one cell all the way out, it would be about 2m long and all the DNA in all your cells put together would be about twice the diameter of the Solar System."---http://www.sciencefocus.com/qa/how-long-your-dna

[Magical Realist]

"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
- John Muir

[Magical Realist]

"The human brain may be able to hold as much information in its memory as is contained on the entire Internet, new research suggests.

Researchers discovered that, unlike a classical computer that codes information as 0s and 1s, a brain cell uses 26 different ways to code its "bits." They calculated that the brain could store 1 petabyte (or a quadrillion bytes) of information.

"This is a real bombshell in the field of neuroscience," Terry Sejnowski, a biologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, said in a statement. "Our new measurements of the brain’s memory capacity increase conservative estimates by a factor of 10."---https://www.livescience.com/53751-brain-...ernet.html

[Magical Realist]

“Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

[Magical Realist]

If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”
―"Gus"... Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

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[Magical Realist]

"Accept loss forever
Be submissive to everything, open, listening
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, knowledge
Be in love with your life.”
― Jack Kerouac

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[Magical Realist]

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

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[Magical Realist]

“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
― Albert Camus

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[Magical Realist]

“We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything.”
― Terence McKenna