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  • To quote Tim Minchin:

    Isn’t this enough?
    Just this world?
    Just this
    Beautiful, complex, wonderfully unfathomable, natural world?
    How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of
    Cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
    If you’re so into your Shakespeare
    Lend me your ear
    “To gild refined gold
    To paint the lily
    To throw perfume on the violet
    Is just fucking silly”
    Or something like that
    Or what about Satchmo?!
    “I see trees of Green
    Red roses too”
    And fine, if you wish to glorify Krishna and Vishnu in a post-colonial, condescending bottled-up and labeled kind of way then whatever, that’s ok
    But here’s what gives me a hard-on
    I am a tiny
    Insignificant, ignorant bit of carbon
    I have one life
    And it is short and unimportant
    But thanks to recent scientific advances
    I get to live twice as long as my great great great great uncleses and auntses
    Twice as long
    To live this life of mine
    Twice as long to love this wife of mine
    Twice as many years of friends and wine
    Of sharing curries and getting shitty at good-looking hippies with fairies on their spines and butterflies on their titties

    I know it’s about superstition, new-age nonsense and “spirituality”, not other planets. But it’s just so on point to me for everything where we fail to appreciate this wonderful world around us.








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    2 months ago

    This is Tiffany, walking back home. Start with the boots. They are big and heavy boots, much repaired by her father and they’d belonged to various sisters before her; she wore several pairs of socks to keep them on. They are big. Tiffany sometimes feels she is nothing more than a way of moving boots around.

    Then there is the dress. it has been owned by many sisters before her and has been taken up, taken out, taken down and taken in by her mother so many times that it really ought to have been taken away.

    A few pages later

    She ran out of her hiding place with the frying pan swinging like a bat. The screaming monster, leaping out of the water, met the frying pan coming the other way with a clang.

    It was a good clang, with the oiyoiyoiyoioioioioinnnnnnggggg that is the mark of a clang well done.

    Terry Pratchett — The Wee Free Men

    And Corporal Nobbs… well, anyone like Nobby had unlimited reasons for not wishing to be seen by other people. You didn’t have to think hard about that. The only reason you couldn’t say that Nobby was close to the animal kingdom was that the animal kingdom would get up and walk away.

    It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are — who knows?

    Best not to speculate.

    Thunder rolled…

    It rolled a six.

    Terry Pratchett — Guards Guards

    I think Douglas Adams might fit even better though.

    The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
    To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
    To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

    Douglas Adams — The Restaurant at the End of the Universe