2024-08-30

• Benny was second to Harper’s first place in intermediate showmanship.
• There were only two entrants.
• Benny thought that he might at last win.
• He did quite well indeed!
• But it was not to be.

• He was visibly quite saddened.

• Thinking about Trapani’s comment, I suspect that the activity of being applies primarily only to a substance.

• The act of being of substance stands in infinitely sharper distinction to that an accident.
• It seems that every substance must have some accidents, but a substance need not exist at all.