He didn't believe in psychiatry, and was screwing with them, and got a D (Deficient) in mental health.
For example: Do you feel anyone in this room is looking at you. > Probably
(It was a largish room, with several guys getting evaluated to get into the army.)
So, the guy tells him to look around, and he finds two guys looking his way.
He gets really dramatic pointing them out, and gets the attention of the whole room, and tells the guy "they're all looking at me!"
The guy doesn't even look up from the form he's filling out and marks it that he imagines that people are staring at him.
He tells him about the two times he heard imaginary voices (professors with distinctive voices, as he was reviewing class content while falling asleep), and gets that marked against him.
After he's rejected, he figures someone will realize he's not mentally deficient but was screwing with them since he'd already worked on the bomb (this was after the war).
So he writes a letter telling them "You know, I was evaluated to be insane, but I'm insane enough to think that evaluation shouldn't be taken into account," and gets rejected.
Terry Pratchett is one of my go-to palate cleansers, when I feel like the other stuff I'm reading is just too heavy. I'm stalled out on another book... Probably need to binge a few, see if I can get it kick started again.
Guess that's what you get when your congress person is one of the fresh new faces behind the green leap forward... Tax gas, because we only have 12 years to live.
I also enjoy the movements to try to split california up, because the farmers are tired of the cities telling them what they can and can't do with their water, among other things.
The big cities are so big it's almost taxation without representation for anyone who doesn't live in one.
Can they redraw the lines a little? I'd rather be in the state of Grand Rapids than the state of Detroit... Whats the population they are aiming for? I see it says equal population, but not what that population is
What resources can't a village get from a river that has a constant stream of floating flotsam and jetsam?
medieval society resources economy
On a flat, seemingly-infinite wasteland with no vegetation is a medieval styled village sized about 0.1 km^2. The village is surrounded by a dense mist t...