Felt the quote belonged here. Read it in Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh. Great read, by the way.
Very similar in meaning to obstinacy, but with less of a connotation of obstruction.
> He stuck with perfect respectfulness, but with invincible pertinacity, to his point. — James Joseph Sylvester
>Endowed with two qualities, which seemed incompatible with each other, a volcanic imagination and a pertinacity of intellect which the most tedious numerical calculations could not daunt, Kepler conjectured that the movements of the celestial bodies must be connected together by simple laws — François Arago
>Dear Future self,
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>I am working on me
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>To be you
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>As I know that my
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>Pertinacity will determine you
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> — Isha Jain
[Scheduled] Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Chapters 29 to 33
You're back! Still January and still cold. You didn't keep reading like I wanted to do? The plot keeps snowballing (pun intended). The revelations in this part alone, oh my!
Q1: Do you think the meetings between Lady Dedlock and Guppy will stay confidential? How much did Tulkinghorn hear at their last meeting? He has his fingers in every pie! Do you think he'll make the connection as to why Guppy visited her? Who has the bigger obsession: Guppy or Tulkinghorn?
Q2: So Miss Barbary was Lady Dedlock's sister and lied that Esther died. Do you think Lady D would have raised her if she knew Esther was alive? Was this before she married Leicester? Was Capt Hawdon addicted to opium before or after he met Lady D?
Q3: Mrs Woodcourt predicts Esther will marry a man 25 years older than her. (She could've married her son if she wasn't such a snob!) What did you think of the wedding party chapter with past characters? What do you think of Mr Jellyby's advice to Caddy: "Never have a mission?"
Q4: What illness did Jo, Charley, and Esther have? Esther and Charley in quarantine has new meaning now… (I wonder if people who read BH in 1918 during the flu epidemic thought the same thing...) Where did Jo run off to?
Q5: Have you heard of spontaneous human combustion? (A link in marginalia. ) What do you believe? Dickens believed it was caused by alcohol. Do you think the letters were burned up too?
Q6: Another revelation: Mr Krook was Mrs Smallweed's brother. Do you think Mr Smallweed will find any incriminating papers? What will he do with the building? Where will Jobling, Miss Flite, and the cat live?
Q7: Anything else you'd like to discuss? Quotes?
Illustrations: Chapter 29, Chapter 31, Chapter 32, Chapter 33
References: Don Quixote, Othello
"Mercury in powder": a messenger servant
Bibo and Charon poem sung by Krook. I found this parody song
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
They’re on standbi
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
Pilot on me!!
