How sad it is when
we discover that a
writer, an artist, an
actor, a musician,
whom we have admired
and enjoyed,
believes in an
imaginary friend.
Category: Bon mots
Dread
Summer is coming
like a giant
steamroller,
belching smoke
and flame,
sounding like a
hurricane wind
as it flattens
all in its path
Valediction
I have never
had, in a long life
of creating ideas,
and things, a serious
review of any of it. No
serious consideration
of what was attempted,
what were the problems,
what was achieved.
But then you don’t get that
for your life itself
I suppose,
Newness
Creating involves
new arrangements of objects
or of ideas.
I am ignorant and I vote
Sad that there are now
so many people who
take pride in their
ignorance, where once
it was a mark of a
human being to
take pride in
knowledge,
intelligence,
and
achievement.
She shows them pearly white
The saying
“as rare as hen’s teeth”
only works if, now and
then, a hen is born
with teeth. But in this
world, though not in
the Age of Dinosaurs,
the saying should be
“as non-existent
as hen’s teeth”.
Stayin’ alive
Strange, I guess,
how reluctant humans
are to accept that the
world managed quite
well without them before
they were born, and will
manage just as well
after they die.
Strange too, I suppose,
that in a world where
all organisms die, after
one day for a Mayfly, or
five thousand years for
a Bristlecone Pine,
humans are so resistant
to accepting their own
death as a natural part
of life on Earth.
It is as well that the dead
cannot feel disappointment
for if they could there
would by now have been
billions of disappointed
corpses.
No secret
The secret of success
is rich ancestors,
relatives in positions
of power, and a friend
who is a media baron
Words words words
How many millions
of words have I
written?
Half a million in
one book alone,
other millions
scattered from one
end of my life to
the other.
It would be nice
to think one or two
will be remembered,
else why did I bother?
Life story
When I visited,
in 1986, Cambridge’s
Magdalen College
(proud that I knew
how to pronounce it),
excited, at last, having
come so far,
with great expectation,
to see the Library
assembled and read
by Samuel Pepys,
it was closed,
for the month,
after 300 years.
