Author Charles Wiegand
@charleswiegand.bsky.social
Charles wrote "Heartbeats Across Borders" and many short stories, some have been published in many different journals/anthologies as well has his own two collections - "Daydreaming" and "Uncharted Realities". All three of his books are available on Amazon
opportunity often opens because nobody in the room fully knows what they’re doing yet. Which has some comfort to it, and is still painfully true.
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
opportunity often opens because nobody in the room fully knows what they’re doing yet. Which has some comfort to it, and is still painfully true.
He succeeded because someone took a chance without fully understanding what they were betting on.
So, he’s not insulting his Tarzan publishers’ literacy skills. He’s illustrating a recurring theme:
So, he’s not insulting his Tarzan publishers’ literacy skills. He’s illustrating a recurring theme:
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
He succeeded because someone took a chance without fully understanding what they were betting on.
So, he’s not insulting his Tarzan publishers’ literacy skills. He’s illustrating a recurring theme:
So, he’s not insulting his Tarzan publishers’ literacy skills. He’s illustrating a recurring theme:
not pure talent. Only later does he go on to writing and Tarzan, where the same principle applies. Editors, publishers, and markets frequently don’t know what will work until after it works. Burroughs didn’t succeed because everyone instantly recognized genius.
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
not pure talent. Only later does he go on to writing and Tarzan, where the same principle applies. Editors, publishers, and markets frequently don’t know what will work until after it works. Burroughs didn’t succeed because everyone instantly recognized genius.
So, Burroughs is saying:
I got the job not because I was good, but because the guy in charge didn’t know enough to realize I wasn’t.
That’s the “break” he referred to.
He’s using that story as a setup for a broader point: success often comes from timing, ignorance above you, and luck,
I got the job not because I was good, but because the guy in charge didn’t know enough to realize I wasn’t.
That’s the “break” he referred to.
He’s using that story as a setup for a broader point: success often comes from timing, ignorance above you, and luck,
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
So, Burroughs is saying:
I got the job not because I was good, but because the guy in charge didn’t know enough to realize I wasn’t.
That’s the “break” he referred to.
He’s using that story as a setup for a broader point: success often comes from timing, ignorance above you, and luck,
I got the job not because I was good, but because the guy in charge didn’t know enough to realize I wasn’t.
That’s the “break” he referred to.
He’s using that story as a setup for a broader point: success often comes from timing, ignorance above you, and luck,
He’s explaining how chance, not mastery, often determines who gets ahead. The “expert accountant” line refers to a job he landed despite not being qualified, because the person hiring him knew even less than he did about what the job actually required.
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
He’s explaining how chance, not mastery, often determines who gets ahead. The “expert accountant” line refers to a job he landed despite not being qualified, because the person hiring him knew even less than he did about what the job actually required.
From "How I Wrote the Tarzan Books" (1929)
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In "How I Wrote the Tarzan Books" (1929), Burroughs describes his early working life before Tarzan.
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In "How I Wrote the Tarzan Books" (1929), Burroughs describes his early working life before Tarzan.
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
From "How I Wrote the Tarzan Books" (1929)
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In "How I Wrote the Tarzan Books" (1929), Burroughs describes his early working life before Tarzan.
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In "How I Wrote the Tarzan Books" (1929), Burroughs describes his early working life before Tarzan.
When numbers are used to impress instead of inform, they stop serving knowledge and start serving power. Over a century later, his joke still lands because people keep falling for it.
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When numbers are used to impress instead of inform, they stop serving knowledge and start serving power. Over a century later, his joke still lands because people keep falling for it.
without delivering understanding.
What makes the quote feel uncomfortably modern is how little has changed. Charts, metrics, percentages, and projections are still used to project confidence rather than convey truth. Carroll isn’t arguing against data — he’s warning against its misuse.
What makes the quote feel uncomfortably modern is how little has changed. Charts, metrics, percentages, and projections are still used to project confidence rather than convey truth. Carroll isn’t arguing against data — he’s warning against its misuse.
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
without delivering understanding.
What makes the quote feel uncomfortably modern is how little has changed. Charts, metrics, percentages, and projections are still used to project confidence rather than convey truth. Carroll isn’t arguing against data — he’s warning against its misuse.
What makes the quote feel uncomfortably modern is how little has changed. Charts, metrics, percentages, and projections are still used to project confidence rather than convey truth. Carroll isn’t arguing against data — he’s warning against its misuse.
he mocks the habit of using statistics as a performance rather than a tool. Pile on enough figures, he suggests, and people stop asking questions. Accuracy becomes optional. Clarity becomes irrelevant. The numbers themselves become a kind of fog that signals seriousness
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
he mocks the habit of using statistics as a performance rather than a tool. Pile on enough figures, he suggests, and people stop asking questions. Accuracy becomes optional. Clarity becomes irrelevant. The numbers themselves become a kind of fog that signals seriousness
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Lewis Carroll wrote this line not as a mathematician showing off numbers, but as a satirist skewering how authority often works. In “Three Years in a Curatorship,”
Lewis Carroll wrote this line not as a mathematician showing off numbers, but as a satirist skewering how authority often works. In “Three Years in a Curatorship,”
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Lewis Carroll wrote this line not as a mathematician showing off numbers, but as a satirist skewering how authority often works. In “Three Years in a Curatorship,”
Lewis Carroll wrote this line not as a mathematician showing off numbers, but as a satirist skewering how authority often works. In “Three Years in a Curatorship,”
What we have is a modern translation capturing the spirit rather than a verbatim ancient line.
What makes it endure is the attitude behind it. In Athenian comedy, “sophists” were seen less as wise thinkers and more as argumentative showmen whose cleverness muddied clarity instead of improving it.
What makes it endure is the attitude behind it. In Athenian comedy, “sophists” were seen less as wise thinkers and more as argumentative showmen whose cleverness muddied clarity instead of improving it.
December 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What we have is a modern translation capturing the spirit rather than a verbatim ancient line.
What makes it endure is the attitude behind it. In Athenian comedy, “sophists” were seen less as wise thinkers and more as argumentative showmen whose cleverness muddied clarity instead of improving it.
What makes it endure is the attitude behind it. In Athenian comedy, “sophists” were seen less as wise thinkers and more as argumentative showmen whose cleverness muddied clarity instead of improving it.
The above line is attributed to Cratinus, a 5th-century BC Athenian comic playwright, and survives only in fragments from his largely lost play "Archilochoi." Like much of Old Comedy, it comes to us through later quotations and scholarly reconstruction rather than a complete script.
December 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The above line is attributed to Cratinus, a 5th-century BC Athenian comic playwright, and survives only in fragments from his largely lost play "Archilochoi." Like much of Old Comedy, it comes to us through later quotations and scholarly reconstruction rather than a complete script.
Pratchett wasn’t defending dragons and wizards for their own sake. He was defending the human capacity to imagine better worlds, worse worlds, and alternatives to the status quo. If a story upsets someone simply because it imagines differently, that says far more about the reader than the tale.
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Pratchett wasn’t defending dragons and wizards for their own sake. He was defending the human capacity to imagine better worlds, worse worlds, and alternatives to the status quo. If a story upsets someone simply because it imagines differently, that says far more about the reader than the tale.
Imagination unsettles certainty, and that can feel threatening.
What makes the quote enduring is how accurately it describes the backlash against creativity itself. Stories that bend reality expose how narrow some worldviews are, and not everyone likes that mirror.
What makes the quote enduring is how accurately it describes the backlash against creativity itself. Stories that bend reality expose how narrow some worldviews are, and not everyone likes that mirror.
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Imagination unsettles certainty, and that can feel threatening.
What makes the quote enduring is how accurately it describes the backlash against creativity itself. Stories that bend reality expose how narrow some worldviews are, and not everyone likes that mirror.
What makes the quote enduring is how accurately it describes the backlash against creativity itself. Stories that bend reality expose how narrow some worldviews are, and not everyone likes that mirror.
It’s a mental tool, a way to rehearse ideas, explore consequences, and test moral questions safely. When people react with hostility to imaginative stories, Pratchett suggests it’s not because those stories are harmful, but because they challenge rigid thinking.
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It’s a mental tool, a way to rehearse ideas, explore consequences, and test moral questions safely. When people react with hostility to imaginative stories, Pratchett suggests it’s not because those stories are harmful, but because they challenge rigid thinking.
Terry Pratchett had little patience for people who dismissed fantasy as frivolous or dangerous, and this line cuts straight to the point. In “Let There Be Dragons,” he argues that imagination isn’t escapism or weakness.
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Terry Pratchett had little patience for people who dismissed fantasy as frivolous or dangerous, and this line cuts straight to the point. In “Let There Be Dragons,” he argues that imagination isn’t escapism or weakness.
These words remind us that the heart’s memory isn’t tidy; it’s raw, quick to feel, and quick to forget when the pain outweighs the warmth.
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
These words remind us that the heart’s memory isn’t tidy; it’s raw, quick to feel, and quick to forget when the pain outweighs the warmth.
Poe wasn’t just dramatizing love; he was pointing to the fragile architecture of human attachment. What took years to nurture can fracture in minutes, not because love was weak but because emotion can be overwhelming.
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Poe wasn’t just dramatizing love; he was pointing to the fragile architecture of human attachment. What took years to nurture can fracture in minutes, not because love was weak but because emotion can be overwhelming.
One moment of emotional violence can overwrite what took years to build, leaving a kind of emotional amnesia rooted not in forgetting but in hurt.
That’s what makes this line haunting yet relatable. We’ve all seen how one argument, one betrayal, or one unbearable word can eclipse years of warmth.
That’s what makes this line haunting yet relatable. We’ve all seen how one argument, one betrayal, or one unbearable word can eclipse years of warmth.
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
One moment of emotional violence can overwrite what took years to build, leaving a kind of emotional amnesia rooted not in forgetting but in hurt.
That’s what makes this line haunting yet relatable. We’ve all seen how one argument, one betrayal, or one unbearable word can eclipse years of warmth.
That’s what makes this line haunting yet relatable. We’ve all seen how one argument, one betrayal, or one unbearable word can eclipse years of warmth.
Edgar Allan Poe knew heartbreak wasn’t linear. In the poem “To ——,” the above line captures how decades of affection can vanish in a flash of pain, anger, or betrayal. Far from sentimental, Poe’s language is crisp and unsettling: love isn’t erased by time but by intensity.
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Edgar Allan Poe knew heartbreak wasn’t linear. In the poem “To ——,” the above line captures how decades of affection can vanish in a flash of pain, anger, or betrayal. Far from sentimental, Poe’s language is crisp and unsettling: love isn’t erased by time but by intensity.