A man who is bored with the Universe
I think I’m running out of things to learn. Or perhaps just the desire to do so
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literature
Though mostly not
Probably best we can’t go back in time to events we didn’t know, at the time, how we would get through or even survive. It is only in hindsight, safe in the knowledge you did survive, that they seem like places you would want to visit
Cold and lonely place
So many dead writers I wish I could have been – Shakespeare of course, and Dickens of course, Keats, Austen, Wodehouse, Conan Doyle, Powell, Eliot, Eliot, Grossmith (both), Proust (I guess), Carroll, Orwell and Pratchett – except and it is a big except, they are all dead and me, I’d rather be alive
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I’m dreaming
Don’t know about you but if I had just lost my job the last thing on my mind would be the effect on Xmas [\”We have workers out there who were expecting to have work to carry them through the Christmas period who have now been dropped out onto the street. It is just going
Missionary imposition
A man is killed trying to bring religion to a people who wisely don’t want a bar of it
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Home time
The towns and villages of our family histories, once active with the tiny details of every day living, are now just a painted backdrop to a disappointing holiday
Players
Appearing on a stage in a school play is a rehearsal for all the stages we will occupy as we act our way through life
No room in the neurones
He who is tired of learning has been doing it for seventy three years and needs to rest
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Crossing the stream
When I first read “From here to Eternity” I was devastated, wanted to read it again and discover that the ending had magically changed and that Prewitt lived. It just needed me to wish hard enough. A number of other books the same. But sadly, as I knew, really, the book is unchanging, fixed. But
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