If we are truly pessimists, then we must also be masochists for staying
around to meet that train in the tunnel.
I prefer to think we must be secret optimists. Otherwise why would we still
be working in and with museums and still caring? The cup is either half full
or half empty. If it's always half empty, how can you keep believing your
work can accomplish anything that matters?
-M. J. (Margaret Jean) Patterson
Yellowknife, NWT Canada
(not exactly Polyanna but still enjoying museums after all these years.
Maybe we are all certifiable?) (just a little midsummer humour from a land
of midnight sun)
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Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 4:41 PM
Subject: Museums & Pessimism


>" A pessimist is the person who construes the 'light at the end of the
tunnel'
>as a steam train approaching! "
>
>This phrase seems rather apt as many of us prepare to enter a new financial
>year!
>Dr Drum
>