Wintertijd

TANSTAAFL.

The other day I was reading Heinlein's "The cat who walks through walls" and came across TANSTAAFL. TANSTAAFL is an expression that Heinlein first coined in the book "The moon is a harsh mistress" from the sixties, and means There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

That phrase has been on my mind recently, and the more I think of it, the more I see a form of universal truth in it. These people on Dam square embodied that. I almost thought that the mime people at Dam square were having a laugh, which struck me as strange, for these guys are not known to be the most humourous of folk, specially to photographers.

After the posing, the jesting and a short negotiation it boiled down to showing them The Kwan anyway.

Posted by Chris at February 1, 2005 11:38 AM