fastastical

Updated: May 23, 2025

There is nothing to tame us down to the event, nothing to reconcile us to our hard luck, for so we think it. We play the game over again: we wonder how it was possible for us to fail. We turn our brain with straining at contradictions, and striving to make things what they are not, or, in other words, to subject the course of nature to our fastastical wishes.

William Hazlitt - Table Talk : Essays on Men and Manners