When all is said and done
Then what?
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Necessity
You don\’t begin life with an intellectual life, you must create one, invent one. Some may stay with that very first intellectual life throughout life, for others though, circumstances will require, demand, reinvention of a new intellectual life, then perhaps another, and another, necessity being the mother of those inventions. You may end up far
Too late
So much fire in Australia now – prescribed burning, arson, power line and industrial accidents, lightning strikes – that Australia\’s fauna will be simplified down to only the early coloniser (after fire) species, all late colonisers going extinct. Where there are groups of species all of which are late colonisers, whole crops will be lost
Appointment in Samarra
The course of a life, like the evolution of a species, only seems inevitable, predestined, in retrospect.
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Cinema Paradisio
Some cliches remain popular in spite of being rarely true. Take the one of the young person leaving home, a prophet without honour, seeking fame and fortune (or just fame) in the big wide world beyond the small village. In the myth it is this action that is the hard one, leaving the comfort and
Hard Labour
The Iranian election is a contest between the Hard Right and the Harder Righter. So were the French and American elections. So indeed are almost all elections everywhere these days. The only exception is Britain. And there Corbyn, for the sin of not being Hard Right, is punished by the media and will be smashed
The two commandments
If the founder of a religion has not made it misogynistic and psychopathic enough his first followers will quickly rectify those short-comings.
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The C-word
An oncology waiting room is filled with separate worlds, some single, some double, all with their own histories, conditions, treatments, prognoses, worries, side-effects. All separate, far apart, not communicating, different in every respect but the single word that unites them, by chance, in that room.
No dwelling place
I guess the trick of dealing with anxiety is not to dwell on stuff. As Lewis Carroll wrote: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that creeps and crawls went wobble-wobble on the walls…