Article: I Can't Believe It's Not Clutter

January is a crucial month in the war against clutter. December is always a disaster. Things arrive by the boxload. There are big things, little things and ultra-tiny things that fit onto the end of a little thing that snaps onto a big thing. All this results in the nightmare we call clutter.

I have three pet peeves in life, which I write about at every conceivable opportunity: clutter, slow service at coffee bars, and the difficulty of envisioning the Riemannian geometry of a finite universe with four spatial dimensions and no distinct boundary. Also there's a fourth: that they killed off Col. Henry Blake in that episode of "M*A*S*H." Some peeves die hard.

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