Best keep it closed
There is not a religious believer on the planet who doesn’t reveal their ignorance of reality every time they open their mouth
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poetry
Death of a patriarch
How sad that a man in his ninety fifth year should say: “My faith has never been stronger”. In all those years his mind never matured enough, his intelligence never developed enough, his knowledge never grew enough, to be able to think for himself. And that both he, and others, should see this not as
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Naming names
Chamberlain Caligula Bush Petain Mugabe Charles I Nixon Yeltsin Hindenburg Nicholas II Abbott George III Akhenaten Hirohito Louis XVI Pol Pot Trump
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.
Illusions intact
Probably just as well you can’t spend an hour with teachers last seen sixty years ago.
Apples for the teachers
Stan Richards, Mary Critch, Alan Strahan, Charlotte Bruce, are teachers now long forgotten by the world. But not by me.
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Or enough of it anyway
I began reading when I was three. Now, seventy years later, surely I have absorbed all the wisdom of the world?
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Greedy
It is not worth desiring a professorship rather than love and happiness and a long and healthy life. But all four would certainly be nice.