On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, G.R. Patterson III wrote:



jim rosinski wrote:

What a profoundly depressing view of one's life.

My mother believes that we inherit all our abilities and can't do any better
than our ancestors. If one of us gets training in something and turns out to be
good at it, she immediately starts trying to figure out which of our ancestors
we "got that from".

Wow. So what's she going to do when one of her grandkids/great-grandkids
becomes an astronaut & goes to the Moon?

No ancestor to 'get that from'! (Well, except for whatever descendants
twelve lucky Yanks have!)

Brian.