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Three Steps to Frustration
Jul. 2nd, 2010 09:14 amStep One: You identify a practical problem, which you don't know how to solve.
Fortunately, just lately you remember dipping into an excellent book, which will most certainly contain the solution.
Unfortunately, you can't recollect quite what the book was, or where you found it.
Step Two: You spend several minutes pottering about, and trying to catch a glimpse of the elusive memory out of the tail of your eye.
Step Three: You identify the book.
Fortunately, you now know exactly what it is, and when and where you last saw it.
Unfortunately, Catmint's Compleat Encyclopaedia of Mechanical Parts is still, as far as you know, in the basement of that bookshop in Oxford, Midatlantica, where you set it aside about 4.15 am last Wednesday in favour of a spirited discussion with your fellow-browser Teddy Roosevelt.
Fortunately, just lately you remember dipping into an excellent book, which will most certainly contain the solution.
Unfortunately, you can't recollect quite what the book was, or where you found it.
Step Two: You spend several minutes pottering about, and trying to catch a glimpse of the elusive memory out of the tail of your eye.
Step Three: You identify the book.
Fortunately, you now know exactly what it is, and when and where you last saw it.
Unfortunately, Catmint's Compleat Encyclopaedia of Mechanical Parts is still, as far as you know, in the basement of that bookshop in Oxford, Midatlantica, where you set it aside about 4.15 am last Wednesday in favour of a spirited discussion with your fellow-browser Teddy Roosevelt.
