touchstone quotations: Warren Foster on Probability

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Warren Foster on Probability

Bugs Bunny: That's terrific, Daffy! They loved it. They want more.
Daffy Duck: [now a ghostly figure] I know, I know, but I can only do it once.

A jealous Daffy tops Bugs' audience pleasing vaudeville performance by blowing himself up.

Excerpt from Show Biz Bugs, 1957
Script by Warren Foster
Distributed by Warner Brothers

(Alternate paraphrase: It's a great trick, but you can only do it once.)

Source: imdb.com

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013