From the bottom-up everything looks upside-down. Right-side-up things are never as they appear. It’s best to see things from a right-angle, from the left if one is left-handed. Shoe-flattened chewing gum is best seen from a height higher than the topmost peak of the Waymart balustrade. Toecaps and tappets (a lever that transfers motion from a cam to a part such as a valve or push rod) have no place in things seen right-side-up, upside-down, from right-angles or from the left. The small boy who ran away with the circus and cared for the very, very fat lady saw things from the bottom-up, never once questioning wherefrom or wherefore, but simply doing what he was paid to do, making sure that the very, very fat lady was dressed, waxed and in her booth on time. Life is much simpler when seen from one angle, from the bottom-up, from a right-angle, or from the left if one is left-handed. Life is least seen when seen straight-on or from the front.
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