I was helping someone "put together" their living room this weekend, which involved thinking about what could go on a big blank wall. I thought they should put a big old map on the wall. The bigger and older the better. National Geographic sells big old-looking maps, but that's no good. Old-looking or old-seeming is not a substitute for old. What's good about old can't be achieved by the semblance of old, I feel. When an old person says "check yourself before you wreck yourself," that's cute. But if I said to you those same words, cute it would not be I dare say. There's an endearment in what is old that is inimitable, which is why National Geographic should check itself for real!
A camel was spotted on the road not galloping.
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