I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
“I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.”
“I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.”