[ExI] archivist's reward

[William Flynn Wallace]

In any nonracing situation a mule is probably a better choice than a
horse.  Like a donkey, it will not work itself to death. I think their
philosophy falls into the Stoic category.   bill w

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 12:38 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> I am a volunteer archivist in my tragically misspent old ag… misspent late
> youth.  The feller who wrote the passage below recorded it on tape in 1994
> when he was aged 86 years.
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> I am transcribing and archiving it for his son, who is a longtime friend,
> now aged 86 years himself.
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> I wondered about this passage.  Any buggy horse not afeard of cars was
> worth a lotta money:
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> Perhaps humans bred a calmer strain of horses by selecting the ones not
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