The Bog of Uncertainty

“The moment one begins to investigate the truth of the simplest facts which one has accepted as true, it is as though one had stepped off a firm narrow path into a bog or quicksand — every step one takes one sinks deeper into the bog of uncertainty.”

—Leonard Woolf (1880-1969), British political theorist and author. See James Atlas, “Stranger Than Fiction,” New York Times, June 23, 1991. (Thanks to Quotemeister Extraordinaire Mardy Groth and his new Great Opening Lines.com.)

 

• Editorial Comment: And just ahead, the jungle of indecision and the sinkhole of ennui.

 

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Ice Fog, 2010

 

  

 

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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