Random thoughts brought about snow fever:

Double beds are much smaller than queen beds.

PhDs do not make people better teachers.

I never did care much for the Rolling Stones and still don't.

People who accept mediocrity in all things do so because they are mediocre and it is too damned hard to be an independent thinker or a thinker at all.

Gilgamesh is the man!

There is one extant copy of Beowulf. Think of all the literature we have lost due to book burnings, purges of language conquerors, or they were told orally. the way, eradication of language is one way conquerors strip indigenous peoples of their identity, and that includes the Anglo-Saxons (though they were not native to England) and the Welsh.

Humans will be extinct someday. The earth will not care.

The Romantics were wrong about nature.

Lovecraft and his peers were racist and sexist.

There's more, but I'll stop there.