No Stranger (to Failure)
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 54234
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It is only fair to say that you are no stranger to failure. In fact you
recognised Failure the first time you saw her, and introduced yourself to
her like a long-lost friend. She had tried to get rid of you, subtly at
first, then by more and more explicit means, but blind to it all you
had stuck to her side through thin and even thinner. You remember the time you read a book which said that the secret to unassisted human flight was simply to try to fall to the ground and fail. Given your near 000 failure score you decided to give it a go. Three weeks later, sucking beef custard through a straw in a particularly uncomfortable hospital bed, you realised that you couldn't even succeed to fail. In comparison to some of your previous failures, the repercussions of your most recent failure are relatively minor - two perforated eardrums leading to a temporary hearing loss of 85% and a permanent loss of around 60%. Oh, and some rather worrying structural damage to your house. As the Tibetan folk music continues to belt out, you notice some of your roof slates falling past the window and hitting the ground with a - well you can't hear because of the music and the deafness and all. This is soon accompanied by cracks appearoing in the ceiling which soon widen and and begin to cough out plaster. There is also a (felt but not heard) rumbling from beneath your feet, as if the house's foundations were about to give up the ghost. Only one thing for it, you think - you will have to leave the house and
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eric kantona
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