re: #263 tradewind

Whoever made up the rule against so-called “run-on sentences” never read Gibbon, Proust, or Joyce, or learned to love the grand sweep of the Homeric metaphor, or basked in the manifold delights of German prose, or watched the sun set on a period by Pericles; he never snoozed to the soporific sonorities of a self-forgetful professor, or turned to his spouse after a blissful half-hour of hearing her drone on while taking in nary a word, and said, “Please go on, dear, I’m fascinated.”

And yes. You have to be crazy to want to be chair of a committee, and all the more so to be president.