Beware the Vice-Presidents of the Mind

I heard a sergeant in the City Army once tell fresh recruits, “First off, in times of peril or catastrophe, don’t panic: Stay calm, look the situation over as carefully as possible, and then, if it STILL looks threatening – panic a lot.”

The too-well-known, too-well-done enthusiasm of City Folks caused one ole soul to exclaim his surprised pleasure in seeing someone do something, “one time in a row.”

Beware, the vice-presidents of the mind.

Ordinary
memory
is like a
drunken
anthropologist.
(And thus, here we stand, at the far reaches of man…)

J.