Dear Wisdom Boy,

How come when you shoot your darts from your blow gun into a power pole out the window they don’t bounce off and come back?

~ Magumbie

Dear M. gumbie,

I was wondering when somebody would finally ask me that. I tell you, young searcher, the answer resides in a combination of physics, air harmonics, football diagrams, spirit density, and quasi-luminarious dreaming. That is to say, such a pointed question deserves a deflective answer.

The reason I was so driven to shooting is probably best explained by a biologist, but for my aim we must go to Robin Hood, to find anything comparable. For you see, the aim is all in these cases.

Had I missed my aim, and nailed a passing car, or the light guard, or something metal, most likely the airy missles would have bounced, if not back, at least somewhere. But as that fabled pole was wooden, they stuck, sometimes.

Your correct trajectoryite,

Wisdom Boy