The New York Times Review of books offers this image of the burden of choice through the eyes of a beaver walking down an aisle of willow. The bountiful illustration made me laugh aloud and I was happy to see it on the page. Of course, we should be clear, beavers wouldn’t suffer from any internal debate over which tree to take. They’d take all the ones they wanted and leave all the ones they didn’t. They are much more direct and unburdened that way…
