"On Running After One's Hat"
All Things Considered (1908)
“Gyro smiled. “There’s an old pataphysical saying: ‘An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.’ Adventure is never convenient. And everything is an adventure, if you take the right perspective.”
“So everything is inconvenient?” Bailey grumbled.
“Oh, yes. That’s exactly it! Life is terribly inconvenient, which makes it quite entertaining.””
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Pat Murphy
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There and Back Again
Source: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 3 (p. 61)
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