The Choice of Joy: Day 19, Possibilities

NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” a few days ago featured Stanley Fish and his new book, “How to Write A Sentence: And How To Read One.”  Wonderful broadcast. 

Callers contributed their favorite sentences.  One caller, Andrew, contributed a sentence from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Sign of Four”:  “When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

What a wonderful sentence.  It sends my brain off on pathways to other sentences. 

Labeling “impossible” shuts and locks; “improbable” at least leaves a crack in the door of possibility.  I shall try replacing some of my impossibles with improbables today.

And that idea, gives me Joy.