Thing To Be Today, Perhaps: tractable.

Is it a good thing to be tractable, that is to be easily persuaded?

Well, it depends who your friends are.

Sadly this means that the responsibility for your actions is entirely in your own hands.

Ah well!

Thing To Be Today, Perhaps: tractable. The word tract meaning a stretch of land, a short morally persuasive pamphlet, an old steam-powered heavy vehicle:


photo of a very fine traction engine by Ian Kirk.

 as well as to be easily persuaded, all come from basically the same roots, which are the Latin words tractāre, to handle, and trahere to pull.