Water Seeks Its Own Level

[barbarienne]

I never really understood what the above aphorism meant--didn't water seek the lowest level available, subject to any handy pooling edges that might constrain it againt gravity?--but I was being literalist when the saying is supposed to be metaphorical. (Or at least I think so. A quick google reveals that everyone has a different take on it, and

Comments

[stevenagy]

It's possible for a "fruitcake" to hang with a "business" type but I don't think it's likely. They'd be the exception to the rule of water seeking its own level.

[barbarienne]

Well, there is a grey zone. I can think of a few who are fruitcakey in that I don't think they have a very realistic grip on the quality of what they are writing (no, S'Perry, I am NOT looking at you, you paranoiac [grin]), but they are decent people and not prone to ranting about how the Ebil Editers Hate Them.

[stevenagy]

Ha!

That's not Sperry, that's me!

[barbarienne]

You have repeatedly stated that you still learn ways to improve your writing. That's not fruitcakey; that's realistic.

(S'Perry's the same...but I know he can be paranoid, and I like to poke at him. ;-)