Love it! Especially that last line. So true. And at the time it felt as though we'd never forget it. But we're so good at forgetting. Witness yet another genocide in plain sight by the same people who suffered one within living memory.
I find this whole concept of forgetting events incredibly disturbing. I've never got over reading about Britain's behaviour in 1950s Kenya and the crimes only a short time after British soldiers liberated the death camps. Do you know the term Mahnmal? It feels like we need to make some of those in Great Britain.
The odd thing was James, after reading John Dee and the ideal that political decisions could be made b6 a meeting of minds set in different places, (without technology) for example politicians in say Rome and Germany could commune without physically meeting.
Then an odd thing happened to me, Hunter S Thompson died, I had a flash sideways glance of a ghost in my writing chair one night by candlelight, it looked like Hunter, he then jumped into the modem.
So you never know, disembodied ghosts may be in the fibre of the Internet. already.
This was hilarious! I particularly liked Dell refusing to fix the tainted laptops... You're right too, the pandemic crisis, the period of containment,was almost completely erased from memory and discussion. True that there were new things to contend with, but it's fascinating nobody wants to explore the way normal life was turned upside down, and then back again, and everyone just blinked and carried on... Does that speak well of us or badly?
Love it! Especially that last line. So true. And at the time it felt as though we'd never forget it. But we're so good at forgetting. Witness yet another genocide in plain sight by the same people who suffered one within living memory.
I find this whole concept of forgetting events incredibly disturbing. I've never got over reading about Britain's behaviour in 1950s Kenya and the crimes only a short time after British soldiers liberated the death camps. Do you know the term Mahnmal? It feels like we need to make some of those in Great Britain.
Are these the same ghosts going into battle again and again?
The odd thing was James, after reading John Dee and the ideal that political decisions could be made b6 a meeting of minds set in different places, (without technology) for example politicians in say Rome and Germany could commune without physically meeting.
Then an odd thing happened to me, Hunter S Thompson died, I had a flash sideways glance of a ghost in my writing chair one night by candlelight, it looked like Hunter, he then jumped into the modem.
So you never know, disembodied ghosts may be in the fibre of the Internet. already.
You ever read that lovely Kafka piece about the postal being full of hungry ghosts stealing the kisses in the letters?
Not yet, beautiful idea, thanks James.
“Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”
Are ghosts drinking kisses sent via the Internet? 💋 😘
This was hilarious! I particularly liked Dell refusing to fix the tainted laptops... You're right too, the pandemic crisis, the period of containment,was almost completely erased from memory and discussion. True that there were new things to contend with, but it's fascinating nobody wants to explore the way normal life was turned upside down, and then back again, and everyone just blinked and carried on... Does that speak well of us or badly?