tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543011315858879643.post7326283063308323269..comments2024-03-28T22:24:56.822+00:00Comments on The Foggy Mirror: And Then, That’s A Long Time...Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07748642117191968075noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543011315858879643.post-52164253223188177782016-08-03T15:47:55.724+01:002016-08-03T15:47:55.724+01:00Caratacus,
Love the cricket quote and yup, it’s ne...Caratacus,<br />Love the cricket quote and yup, it’s new to me.<br />A lifetime ago, when I was on man’s boat, we used to bob into Japan and I always remember their saying, back then, when anything was looking a little iffy; “Never mind. Tomorrow may never happen.”<br />Many years later, in Vietnam, if things weren’t progressing quite to plan, they would say, “Never mind. If job not finished Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07748642117191968075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543011315858879643.post-70861398737817353692016-08-02T21:17:49.928+01:002016-08-02T21:17:49.928+01:00But surely as an Englishman you are familiar with ...But surely as an Englishman you are familiar with Lord Mancroft's observation, “Cricket is a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented to give themselves some conception of eternity.”<br /><br />For myself I've always privately thought that us true immortals live our lives in the eternal present between the future, which hasn't happened yet, and the past, Caratacushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03676339602955090535noreply@blogger.com