null blog » MacWhirr http://devnull.ro Random ramblings of nil importance Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:06:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dirty weather http://devnull.ro/node/73 http://devnull.ro/node/73#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 05:00:15 +0000 ggl http://blog.devnull.ro/?p=73 ‘Observing the steady fall of the barometer, Captain MacWhirr thought, “There’s some dirty weather knocking about.” This is precisely what he thought. He had had an experience of moderately dirty weather — the term dirty as applied to the weather implying only moderate discomfort to the seaman. Had he been informed by an indisputable authority that the end of the world was to be finally accomplished by a catastrophic disturbance of the atmosphere, he would have assimilated the information under the simple idea of dirty weather, and no other, because he had no experience of cataclysms, and belief does not necessarily imply comprehension.’

— Joseph Cornad, Typhoon

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