Sunday, July 04, 2004

Happy, happy, happy, joy, joy, joy....

Ah. No misery on this site. Oh, no. Everything is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds. Or, to put it in the words of Kurt Vonnegut, everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
And so. On with life. Travel. Trains again. And underground boats, in Derbyshire. And then underground trains, taking me home (albeit not to West Virginia, which seems slightly disappointing.) Intriguingly enough, the man sat in the booth at Colliers Wood tube station had a whole load of notes reading "delayed" pinned to the wall behind him. It seemed somehow appropriate.
And what else has happened in the world. Well, apparently Iraq is now ruled by Iraqis. Which is nice. Or would be if it were true. Unfortunately, the government has been saddled with a whole host of laws which they're not allowed to rescind. Such as one banning trades unions (Saddam Hussein himself passed a similar one. Plus ca change). Or the fact that they do not have the right to ask the American army to leave their country. One might, if one were feeling flippant and cynical to excess, invoke the memory of the Vichy government. Ho hum.
And then, end of the month. And payday. Which always reminds us of the Mephistopholean bargain we enter. A small sum of money in return for our supplication. Our lives. Our souls (Our souls, you hear? Our souls!)
On which note, we go...

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