Eid Mubarak
Oct. 1st, 2008 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI know nothing about economics, so my opinion is worth nothing, but I reckon what's going down right now is karma.
Yesterday was a damp, dark, dreadful day. I sat in my big chair and read Swift.
Gulliver Book II is rather charming- a Georgian idyll. It's as if Swift had forgotten he was supposed to be blasting humanity and had allowed himself to fall in love with these people- the king and Glumdalclitch in particular. Brobdignag is a nice place and almost everybody- in spite of the skin problems- is nice too. It would have been much better for Gulliver if he'd stayed.
I'm also reading Murakami's After the Quake- a set of stories, dealing- obliquely- with the Kobe earthquake of 2000. The people in them are living on the very edge of the void- as we all are, all the time- only mostly we prefer not to notice.
Google this morning features a weird graphic involving a grinning goon in a wooly hat, a couple of manic kids and a bunch of heart-shaped balloons. In the background there are explosions. On one side of the goon is a melting cross, on the other a bleeding heart. Happy New Year- or the end of civilisation as we know it?
Yesterday was a damp, dark, dreadful day. I sat in my big chair and read Swift.
Gulliver Book II is rather charming- a Georgian idyll. It's as if Swift had forgotten he was supposed to be blasting humanity and had allowed himself to fall in love with these people- the king and Glumdalclitch in particular. Brobdignag is a nice place and almost everybody- in spite of the skin problems- is nice too. It would have been much better for Gulliver if he'd stayed.
I'm also reading Murakami's After the Quake- a set of stories, dealing- obliquely- with the Kobe earthquake of 2000. The people in them are living on the very edge of the void- as we all are, all the time- only mostly we prefer not to notice.
Google this morning features a weird graphic involving a grinning goon in a wooly hat, a couple of manic kids and a bunch of heart-shaped balloons. In the background there are explosions. On one side of the goon is a melting cross, on the other a bleeding heart. Happy New Year- or the end of civilisation as we know it?
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Date: 2008-10-01 10:34 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-01 11:02 am (UTC)I like this - what a great epithet it would make!
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Date: 2008-10-01 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 12:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 11:03 am (UTC)I spotted this too and can't quite get my head around what it is supposed to represent (if anything).
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Date: 2008-10-01 11:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 12:31 pm (UTC)When it's a specific thing (like Conan Doyle's birthday), clicking on the graphic will start a search based around what it is being celebrated.
Today, it's something different :-)
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Date: 2008-10-01 12:50 pm (UTC)It's a 15 year old kid's vision of his "community".
I still think it's weird.
So who is the creepy looking guy in the wooly hat?
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Date: 2008-10-01 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 01:28 pm (UTC)I can't help but think the artist is having a bit of a laugh...strange boggly-eyed man in woolly hat hanging around young boys...a cross melting in the background...
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Date: 2008-10-01 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 01:34 pm (UTC)D'oh!