CHAPTER 8: VENTUM MINGIT
Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit, —Nielsen, S. 10th International Congress on
Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, 2009
“A wise man does not pee into the wind” (data not shown).
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Rockburg, December 12, 1987
“I don’t know a damned thing about camels. What brought this up?”
It was six in the morning. I’d been at home and in the middle of breakfast when Mark
called. I like Mark. Anybody who can put up with my sister has my admiration—but
camels? He’s an engineer and doesn’t have anything to do with animals. And six in
the morning?
“Linda roped me into a Living Nativity: camels, donkeys, sheep—the whole menagerie.
They’ve kicked the little kids out of the pageant and put in animals and adults.
Nobody in church knows anything
