21.12.2006, 15:26
Imagine that you have to break someone's arm.
Right or left, doesn't matter. The point is that you have to break it, because if you don't...well, that doesn't matter either. Let's just say bad things will happen if you don't.
Now, my question goes like this: do you break the arm quickly â snap, whoops, sorry, here let me help you with that improvised splint â or do you drag the whole business out for a good eight minutes, every now and then increasing the pressure in the tiniest of increments, until the pain becomes pink and green and hot and cold and altogether howlingly unbearable?
Hugh Laurie - The Gun Seller
Right or left, doesn't matter. The point is that you have to break it, because if you don't...well, that doesn't matter either. Let's just say bad things will happen if you don't.
Now, my question goes like this: do you break the arm quickly â snap, whoops, sorry, here let me help you with that improvised splint â or do you drag the whole business out for a good eight minutes, every now and then increasing the pressure in the tiniest of increments, until the pain becomes pink and green and hot and cold and altogether howlingly unbearable?
Hugh Laurie - The Gun Seller
Manchmal ist es leicht, die Antwort zu finden. Manchmal nicht. Manchmal fällt es uns sogar schwer, die richtige Frage zu stellen.
(Terry Pratchett - Hohle Köpfe)