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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 1 (May 1, 1932.)

The Core of the Corpuscle

The Core of the Corpuscle.

The spirit of the age, and all ages, stages and rages, is Optimism. Optimism is vitamin X, and X equals the core of the corpuscle, or the spirit of X-istence.

It is true that Optimism sometimes sleeps, but like a flea at the dog show or an onion in a Spanish garden, it is always there. On the other hand, there is no such vegetable as Pessimism, for Pessimism is the seed that doubts and never sprouts; it soils not, neither does it spinach.

So-called pessimists are Bluff oysters, who bluff that all shellfish are selfish and that an oyster can never royster, nor a winkle twinkle. But when their bluff is called with an oyster opener, it is discovered that they have been hiding their light under a boo-shell. Thence they suffer oystracism and die of shell-shock.

Optimism makes the world ‘op round, even if it does bump a bit on the bends. It is as impossible to support life without optimism as without oxygen. A fly in a treacle factory has as equally good a chance of buzzing off as a pessimist in a mud bath.