Many times we defer certain aspects of The Good Life, believing we shall someday get back to that which made our lives worthwhile in the first (or second) place. Walcott accomplished many great things and had, by any reasonable measure, an exceedingly good life.But, if Gould's account is anywhere near truth, Charlie Walcott regretted not getting the Burgess Shale job done."And just so." Indeed.
Oh, there were tragedies in Walcott's life-just as there are tragedies in the lives of us all.
Thing is, that after Charlie made these discoveries, he got caught up in his own unfinished legend.became, as Gould noted, an administrator, and as such, lost his first love: applied science. Seems that Charlie was a better than middling paleontologist and scientist who made interesting discoveries in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Inasmuch as this post has had much ado about the good life, I was interested in Gould's OEOs concerning the life of Charles Doolittle Walcott. Shadows Real As real as political ideologies, I guess.
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