Fire Museum Opens

The Fire Museum Of Port Desespoir, Uqbar, opened yesterday evening.

It was, as usual in the island , preposterous and impressive. It reminded me of all the "eternal" flames I have seen. Most of them were extinguished for one reason or another, and they appeared to be anything but "eternal".
I remembered being in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania once some years ago, early 90's perhaps, and visiting the Gettysburg National Monument. Maintenance and upkeep seem to have gone through one of those cycles they do, and the flama eterna was out. The grass was also quite long. There was an air of desuetude about.

This is one of the reasons I am quite sure that present day managerial skills are not sufficient to cope with extremely large institutions, be they banks, governments, etc: all things have their season and there are up and down cycles even in eternal flame upkeep. Good intentions goeth before the fall.... Human beings are really not the best items to have as regulators and monitors...but there you are: we are stuck with them!

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