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: '''R''' Exactly &mdash; in business.<br/>
: '''R''' Exactly &mdash; in business.<br/>
'''Q''' You have spent a lot of time on artistic work, but without success or a career &hellip;<br/>
'''Q''' You have spent a lot of time on artistic work, but without success or a career &hellip;<br/>
: '''R''' You know [thinks, or pretends to] I recall a get-together at a summer school in Software Ergonomics, late eighties. There was this super hot young scientist working in computer imaging. To impress her, I quoted Karl Krauss: Career is like a horse race, where the horse arrives at the finish without the rider. But she might have misread my gender, I suppose, and that was that.
: '''R''' You know [thinks, or pretends to] I recall a get-together at a summer school in Software Ergonomics, late eighties. There was this super hot young scientist working in computer imaging. To impress her, I quoted Karl Krauss: Career is like a horse race, where the horse arrives at the finish without the rider. But she might have misread my gender, I suppose. Not the first, not the last.
'''Q''' Late eighties, that's forgivable.
'''Q''' Late eighties, that's forgivable.
: '''R''' I don't know. Anyway, being me became a career of sorts and Krauss' prophecy has not come true. Not too shabby either.   
: '''R''' I don't know. Anyway, being me became a career of sorts and Krauss' prophecy has not come true. Not too shabby either.