One ace-in-the-hole is worth more than a barrel full of pin the tail on a monkey's uncle. If you're playing strip mine poker, and everything is coming up straight flushes, and you're forced to accept wooden nickles cuz the chips are down, knock that block off your shoulder, step across that line, buffalo the chips with a chap off the old block from the bottom of the barrel, and stop on a dime. Its easier to stick a camel in the eye with a haystack full of needles, than for a pin-head to count the angels standing on the tip of the straw that broke the camel's back. Brush your hair, by the skin of your teeth, with a fine tooth comb. Thoughts are but muddled snapshots produced by the self-developing instamatics of your mind. The mind is an obsolete substitute for the Now Machine.