Dumbledore

[Smythe, Boyd T {FLNA}]

Yep, he's still mine in all his sad glory. Or is it fierce joy? Wait, that's
quiddich.

Daft sincerity? Noble delusion? Grand humility? The answer lies within
yourself, grasshopper.

I'll finish my review of his categories in all my vaingloriously purblind
deconstructionism. (Online thesauri are the deftest!)

--boyd, who, when reading the main list, thinks often of the following
exchange between master and student in the classic TV show Kung Fu

Young Caine: "Of all things, to live in darkness must be the worst."
Master Po: "Fear is the only darkness. Never assume that because a man has
no eyes, he cannot see. Close your eyes. What do you hear?"
"I hear the water. I hear the birds."
"Do you hear your own heartbeat?"
"No."
"Do you hear the grasshopper which is at your feet?"
Caine opens his eyes and looks down at his feet to see a grasshopper there.
"Old Man, how is it that you hear these things?"
"Young Man, how is it that you do not?"