Re: micro-level decisions

Dan Goodman wrote: 
"Happy families are all alike.  Every unhappy family is unhappy in its
own way."

-"It is not possible to write interestingly about a happy marriage."-
Anthony Powell.

My reaction to the first: Actually, it's the other way around. 

My reaction to the second:  wtf?


If more than half of marriages end in divorce, and presumably a substantial percentage of the others are unhappy, but held together my a moral conviction, then you'd think happy marriages would be more interesting. After all, people generally don't know what one works like.

Bill
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