i think i've heard this, but tell it again.

This is the overture from Meredith Wilson's _The Music Man_.

Quotation of the day, today.

"A model can succeed without it being clear what has been achieved." - Sorensen

Thoughts on The Little Mermaid

think of ariel, the mermaid, after she has become human. think of her holding the prince, after the shipwreck, in the middle of the broken ship's debris. what did she learn about the ocean, when she realized it would drown her? none of its features will have changed, but its relation to her becomes something foreign and deadly, something unknown. really, she doesn't learn anything new about the ocean. she comes to know it as something new. even where no new information is gained, one can further grasp things.

If a person's heart is sick, the person is probably sick too.

grant that language is more than purely descriptive, and that to understand it is to understand more than the truth conditions for its sentences and the referents of its words; still, it possesses those features. though it is not exhausted by its descriptive parts, it inherits any problems those parts suffer.