Atdtda22: [43.7ii] Cover every contingency, or not, 631-632

[Paul Nightingale]

[631.17-19] "And what's it matter, really, materialist or spiritualist,
they're all bloody bomb-chuckers aren't they."

Cf. the sweeping generalisation on 607:

... though many corresponded by gas for emotional reasons, including those
so vehemently discontented with the post office that they might have been
out seeking to chuck bombs into post-boxes, were it not for the many
Suffragettes queued up ahead of them.

On motivation, consider Humfried's "pretext for running in and out of doors"
etc (597).


And then, by way of contrast ...

[632.1-3] "... good heavens man, if we had to cover every contingency we
might as well be writing espionage novels."

Ref Root on gambling, on 538:

He pulled from his pocket a battered slip of paper, covered with formulae
full of upside-down triangles, capital Ss, and small qs, and frowned at it.
"Think I'd better adjust some parameters here, room temperature, punter
irrationality index, one or two coefficients in the retroversion matrix ..."