“Definitions are very dreadful things: they do the two things that most men, especially comfortable men, cannot endure. They fight, and they fight fair.” - G.K. Chesterton
Definitions are daggers and they cut without apology. They are beautifully, faithfully, dreadfully relentless in their dependability and divisiveness. Definitions divide the thing down to the division of joint and marrow as far as "joint" and "marrow" are defined. Definitions leave no room for confusion by cutting a clear path between the halves.
Definitions fight and do not flinch. They do not offer an apology, for they have the fingers of fairness brandishing their hilt. As long as they stay true, they will always run through those who resist them. Because they come to a point, they pierce whatever protests them.
"All good things come to a point, swords for instance." - G.K. Chesterton
***came across this gem the other day while reading THIS
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