ATDTDA (2): "wheel" (41.27)

[Monte Davis]

> "It's nothing supernatural.  Most people have a wheel riding
> up on a wire, or some rails in the street, some kind of guide 
> or groove, to keep them moving in the direction of their 
> destiny.  But you keep bouncing free.  Avoiding penance and 
> thereby definition" (p. 41).

Maurice Hare (and generations of Oxonian philosophy students):

There once was a man who said, "Damn!
It is borne in upon me I am
An engine that moves
In predestinate grooves
I'm not even a bus, I'm a tram"

>  bent wire on a handle onto which you
> placed a wheel and it magnetically rolled up and down the 
> wire, yo-yo-like.  I can picture it.

This was the variant I had -- just a few years "before the 1960's"


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