Get a Life

The Monarchy is for nostalgiques and parasites, to the impartial observer Royalty a bit like mobile, talking furniture.

 

If by some miracle its members not already stupid, they’re so corrupted by their own uselessness that by the time they’re forty, they’ll have turned this way.

 

The stultifying round of meaningless duties does this to people so positioned: accepting it a pathetic addiction to suffocating, stylized mediocrity.

 

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Charity

When strangers become overly inquisitive, I always tell them I’m a cilantropist.

 

-Oh, really? Through which endowment?

 

- The Coreander Foundation, I tell them modestly

 

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Parades

Showtime: Nations and people continually needing to project supposed strength and superiority, in fact suffer from an adolescent sense of inferiority. They’re dangerous not for what is in their hands, but for what is in their head.

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Crushing Sand

Somebody referred to the Arabs’ primeval urge to crush opponents at will. Or at least the persistent attempt to do so, affirming they still haven’t learned from the fact that since at least one century, this conclusively worked nowhere. Not to call it an outright stupidity it at the very least demonstrates an astonishing lack of imagination and of understanding of the human spirit, now nearly everywhere touched by modernity, abandoning age-old apathy with gusto.

 

Compromise still forms no part of the Arab playbook and the crude reactions to initially peaceful opposition called forth by the horrible ignorance of Saddam, Khadafy and Assad, stand as a fulminating example of this assessment.

 

Of course once an innocent opposition has been slaughtered in the streets, there is no returning and proven to represent political or even physical suicide to the very ‘leader’ primitively favouring such approach.

 

Can’t murder your way out of a problem! Not even with modern weapons!

 

The Soviets, the Cambodians, the North-Koreans tried it by atomizing the population, but all it brought them was poverty and deprivation until the corpse of a nation was dead and barely moving.

 

The Caliphates that aren’t will all end up the same way, give or take a decade.

 

Those still in anachronical death throws.

 

For crushing sand, only gets one more… sand!

 

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Time Out!

I’m throwing in the towel for a while, I’m much too busy with my other writing.

 

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Also see my books on sale at Arts & Letters Daily:  www.aldaily.com , it’s where it’s happening.

 

Et pour mes amis Français: bonne chance avec le père Hollande: désolé, il n’a pas la solution!

Moolah!

Money is a nomad, in recent years turned hermit, it seems!

 

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Haiti

A self-deprecating Haitian friend of mine came to Canada, because he contrasts so well with the snow.

 

It’s the first time in my life, he told me, that people take note of me.

 

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Cuba

Some Brit wrote that arriving at José Marti airport in Havana, forced to share a sixty year old taxi to one’s hotel, what’s immediately obvious is the odour of pussy and petrol.

 

This is a very genteel way of putting it, but not my impression.

 

It’s more like cunt, rum and coconuts!

 

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Town Life

In the small town where I live, a 34 year old exhibitionist who had masturbated in front of a ladies volleyball team was arrested for indecency, later having been recognised in the street!

 

His mother probably giving him hell, saying: ‘You fool! I told you to be careful!.

 

‘But Mom, an exhibitionist can’t be careful! There’s no such thing as a careful exhibitionist! I mean, what’s the point!?’, him forcibly answering.

 

But perhaps the better career tip would have been: Don’t be an exhibitionist in a very small town!

 

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Fairy Tales

This paragraph is an excerpt from my essay Fairy Tales: A Narrow Escape!

 

(see website)

 

With this I mean let’s move away from sophisticated sentimentalism, injecting some pragmatism and realism. For when two of among millions of galaxies collide, events taking tens of millions of ‘our’ years to culminate, how can Jesuits, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and so many other gentlemen for instance, really, really believe this is all with them in mind? Deny that their extra-existential reveries and aspirations, their pursuit of certain dis-realities and dis-identities not mere, contrived survival tools, often awakening a taste for domination? Or is it all fear of ‘boire la mer’, man so overwhelmed by infinity and space that he has to set boundaries, shores, respite, by way of answers as buoys… thinking he’s drowning, before even setting out to exist for a bit? Believing, swimming in this case. Much like an airplane pilot connives an artificial horizon… so he won’t crash.

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