Do the unthinkable

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
- Douglas Adams

It is not often that I let one area of study overlap into another.  Actually, it happens all the time, but that’s not important right now.  One of the great discoveries in my recent reading has been Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  His sardonic wit brings to light some things that are so painfully obvious that we should have seen them long ago and to point out the absurdity of not seeing it in the first place.

Here is a perfect example.  What does it mean to eff something anyway?  Adams took a word that those of us who would use it wind up using it incorrectly anyway (ineffable actually means “not expressible in words”) and uses it to highlight just how doable the undoable really is.  If it has been presented to us to do, then it can be done.  Rather than wasting our time talking about how impossible it is, we might as well just get to work.