Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Having married a previously divorced woman, and now being divorced from her and single, I have come to appreciate the wisdom of Samuel Johnson and Oscar Wilde. In The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791, the Scottish scribbler, James Boswell, quotes Johnson, on hearing that a man had remarried soon after the death of a wife to whom he had been unhappily married,
“The triumph of hope over experience”
Oscar Wilde expanded this in one of his humorous epigrams,
“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience”
Despite these invaluable warnings of the disaster to follow from re-undertaking a project that has previously fallen far short of expectations,I take pen in hand (editor: what is a pen?) I take keyboard in hand and assay to scribble yet another continuation of Barbara’s tragic saga in Singapore. Let the incautious readers be warned, this will be as cheap, prurient, vulgar, unjust, and all-around ridiculous as its justly mocked predecessors. To add additional insult to your intelligence, I initiate this posting with only a small part composed (and that rather badly), and no clear idea of all the misfortunes that will surely be heaped upon our undeserving heroine. Therefore, be prepared for lapses in posting; perhaps even long periods of no communication at all. The possible saving grace of this intermittent prospect is that it will give the readers the opportunity to rethink their foolhardy decision to read any of this drivel.
“The triumph of hope over experience”
Oscar Wilde expanded this in one of his humorous epigrams,
“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience”
Despite these invaluable warnings of the disaster to follow from re-undertaking a project that has previously fallen far short of expectations,
That being said, abandon hope, all ye who read further!
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