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Article: I Can't Believe It's Not Clutter
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 10, 2002
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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.
Clutter is a cultural phenomenon ...
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