gnothe seauton.... or look like a fool

This was meant to look a bit weird. The opening two words are the famous Greek motto "know thyself", in the possibly less famous Greek original. I just thought it might catch a reader's eye. Because the point is not exactly a novelty. Make an effort to know yourself. Seek to be aware of the kind of thing you are. Try and have at least a little understanding of how you react and of the way you do things. Or else you will, if you are lucky, become matter for mirth. I know it's tough. I know I'm not a particularly good example. But good Heavens, there are worse than me.

Take inverarity. Every now and then I poke my nose in his LJ, mainly to see whether the next Alexandra Quick novel is coming along. (So far, bad news.) And just now I had the experience - I guess these things must sooner or later happen - of finding out that, after the way he had treated madderbrad and me, and probably others too, inverarity still imagines that he could find someone to debate him on fundamental issues and challenge his views.