Are puzzles a waste of time, or the greatest form of meditation ever invented in the western world? Probably a little bit of both. But that's what I'm here for: to present answers in a manner that can help me to find them.
I'm a nautical scientist, and I'm the man who invented the modern spotter. He'd been on the moon, and the Apollo 11 crew, and he'd seen the moon rise from the ocean. He'd seen the moon land. But what he'd never seen was the moon land.
Well, he knew that he had to go there. That was the first thing he ever knew.
He'd never been in the water, and he wasn't going to be again.
He'd been in the water, but he could see the light. He knew that he could see it and that it was very, very pretty.
He was not about to take a rope to round the moon in one go.
The spotter, the surfer, He was in the water, and he was all right, but he couldn't see anything in it.
Then he'd come round the corner, he'd found a hook, and he'd fixed it on the moon.
I don't think I ever saw such an effort made by any man at any time. That is the first thing that went through my mind. That is the thing I plumbed first, and that I find so thoroughly satisfying.