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Date Posted: 15/05/05 17:58
Author: Elgin Marble
Subject: Do details make a safer world?

I noticed that an earlier correspondant had asserted that details make the world a safer place.

My observation, however, differs markedly and tends to lead me to conclude that details add hazard and risk to worldly activities.

In particular my attention to the detail of my footwear's security had consequences that I doubt any bootlace maker had considered whilst plying his trade in some dark basement sweatshop. Fortunately I was not hurt physically in the ensuing accident, when I noticed that the knot on my left black Oxford had worked loose. I stooped to re-tie it, momentarily forgetting the onrushing heavy goods vehicles proceeding along the dual carriageway over the gorge near here. I'm glad to say that the drivers all took effective avoiding action and my immediate embarrasement was saved.

I was shocked, though to find that the combined momentum of the vehicles enabled them to burst through the stout barriers that mark the side boundary of the bridge, whereupon they fell in a cloud of diesel and dust into the bottom of the gorge. A plume of rich orange flames marked the official end of the danger to myself and I was able to continue on my way.

But it is a lesson worth noting.

Yrs Trly

E. Marble

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