charismatic also would have missed the derby had there been different rules. what, there would have been no derby winner that year had he been left out? or mine that bird this year? horses get left out every year. the fact that on occasion a horse wins who may have been excluded doesn't reinforce anything except the adage that every dog has its day.
and no, i didn't read it in its entirety. i have james joyces ulysses on the shelf for when i want to read long winded writing.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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