two thoughts

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Precision is the first cousin of nuance. Or maybe they are siblings. Whichever. In any case, this could possibly explain why i've always gotten along better with scientists than artists. In The Third School, my budding-scientist teenage students respected precision and a careful accounting of the facts. It's difficult to slide into hasty generalisations when your concern is with getting the facts right -- and it is in this concern that nuance finds a strong bastion in our current hysterical, tunnel-visioned times ... ...
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It's very very difficult to be a thinking person and not also find it almost impossible to talk about Singapore in any kind of adequate way. It's such a mindbogglingly unique place. (i suppose to some extent one can say that most / all countries: but if you think about Singapore in terms of its size, i really don't think there are too many places around the world that are so small and for which it's almost impossible to find any analogues anywhere else.)
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A good friend recently commented that Singapore has become my 'hobby-horse' -- with all the criticism that the term implies. He is not wrong, by the way -- Singapore is my current hobby-horse. (My reply to him, though, was that it is my home.) But, as hobby-horses go, i think it's sufficiently fascinating to warrant my attention -- so long as my vision doesn't narrow so much as to be unable to see anything else.
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