Princeton knjiga - Life is short

Iz nekog meni neznanog razloga sam ljubitelj Princeton University Press knjiga...Jedna od njih na koju sam naišao je "Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful" autora Dean Rickles. U njoj ima jedan fenomenalan uvod u knjigu:"

"Well," said the witch, "I know everything that’s going to

happen to you." Then she remarked that Dominic was

unusually wise for so young a dog and offered him a bit of

information. "I hope you don’t mind if I tell you this much,"

she said. "That road there on the right goes nowhere. There’s

not a bit of magic up that road, no adventure, no surprise,

nothing to discover or wonder at. Even the scenery is

humdrum. You’d soon grow much too introspective. You’d take

to daydreaming and tail-twiddling, get absent-minded and

lazy, forget where you are and what you’re about, sleep more

than one should, and be wretchedly bored. Furthermore, after

a while, you’d reach a dead end and you’d have to come all that

dreary way back to right here where we’re standing now, only it

wouldn’t be now, it would be some woefully wasted time later."

—William Steig, Dominic