Yeats

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand somethingof what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’sa solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart isrunning around inside someone else’s body.

—Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22

(photo: HB Adventure)

Mental floss in preparation…