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consider the big fists breaking your little bones,
or consider the vague bureaucrats
stumbling, fumbling through Paper.
--
"Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg"

 

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Beam me up. The IRS does not need more workers. The IRS does not need more money. These stumbling, fumbling, bumbling mistake-prone nincompoops have got to go.

 

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Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! — An ecstasy of fumbling,
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Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
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Wilfred Owen

 

I could not believe what I was seeing: everywhere there were whale bones. Thousands of them stacked on top of each other. They rose from the seabed almost to the surface of the water. There were big bones. I could make out many of them: rib bones, jaw bones, vertebrae. In some places they were piled so high that, when I took a stroke, my hands touched them. I thought of all the beautiful whales I’d seen around the coast of South Africa and Norway that add so much to the area. How many whales were hunted and brought to this island before having their carcasses burned for oil and their bones dumped in this way? It disgusted me to such an extent that I considered stopping the swim to move it elsewhere, but I decided I had to press on.

 

Lewis Gordon Pugh

 

All of us collectively are fumbling towards an apprehension of something that feels like a kind of group awareness – we are trying to feel the shape of it, it’s not here yet, and a lot of us are probably saying a lot of silly things. That’s understandable. There is something strange looming on the human horizon. If you draw a graph of all our consciousness, there is a point we seem to be heading towards. Our physics, our philosophy, our art, our literature – there is a kind of coherence there, it may look disorganised at first glance, but there is a fumbling towards a new way of apprehending of certain basic fundamentals.

 

Alan Moore

 

I used to say that I spent half my life breaking bones on the rugby field, then the other half putting them back together in the operating theatre.

 

JPR Williams