"The Art of Looking Sideways"

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Calling this book merely a giant scrapbook is like calling Alan Fletcher merely an intellectual magpie.

"I quote others only the better to express myself."- Michel de Montaigne
"Art is I... science is we." - Claude Bernard
"We make tools, and as we evolved, our tool make us." - Steven Pinker
"Beware of artists - they mix with all classes of soceity and are therefore most dangerous." - Victoria, Queen of England
"Wit is educated insolence." - Aristotle
"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing." - H. L. Mencken
"Our heads are round to allow thoughts to change direction." - Dadaist Francis Picabia
"Nothing is as redolent of time and place and the passing seasons as eating the food of your childhood miles from home."  - A. A. Gill
"Imagination is intelligence with an erection." - Victor Hugo
"If one is not half mad how can one give birth to a dancing star?" - Nietzsche

In the author's own words:
'However, life is not a technological ladder, it's more of a cultural wheel. '
'Civilization is only chaos taking a rest. '
'The problem of the problem will have been transferred from how can I cut paper, to one of where did I leave the scissors.'

mopery: a violation of an imaginary law or rule