Look through any window
Whether I am seven and a half or seventy five, the I who looks out of my window is the same I, no matter how he appears to those looking in.
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History
Brave new world
If you think after Coronavirus, corporations will stop exploiting workers, will stop trashing the world, will stop supporting wars, will stop buying elections, will start paying taxes, you’re living in a parallel universe.
We are all Pythagoreans
Have I gone through more than half a century with “the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides” stuck in my brain? Has the whole human race gone through twenty five centuries sharing the same ear worm?
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You must remember this
Sometimes I meet someone from my past who tells me something I didn’t know about a common friend, or enemy, or event, that completely alters my memory of that person or history. Are all of my memories fungible?
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Stupid is as
No one I ever met, in the course of my long life, was as stupid as Donald Trump, and believe me there were some strong contenders.
End times capitalism
If the world was about to be hit by a giant asteroid, which would smash the planet into pieces, destroying all life except tardigrades, there would be people selling tickets for the best vantage point from where to see it coming.
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Imagination
Worth remembering in these frightening times – all imaginary friends are equally imaginary.
Vanishing perspective
Once upon a time I used to say “Oh, if only I was twenty years younger”. Now, suddenly it seems, I have to say ”Oh, if only I was fifty years younger.”
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Questions, questions
If the answer is prayer you are asking the wrong question.
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In the old days
Oh, those old university lecturers of mine. How ancient they were, fossils lecturing about fossils. Why they must have been at least forty years old, some even fifty!