January 21, 2009
How to Have a Brick Horse Instead of a Horse of Straw Or Sticks
Remember the Three Little Pigs and their houses? The house of straw, flimsy and unstable, ready to blow away with a gust of wind; the house of sticks, built with a little more stability, but still unreliable when the chips were down. The ultimate house, the house of bricks, was ready for anything, solid and dependable.
