Monday, September 08, 2008

Brownian Motion

Thanks to Guido. I am much taken with this statement of Gordon Brown's - 'My own response to the great challenges in my own life has been to confront them, resolute in the belief that there would always be something that could be done to overcome them.' It is obviously odd, therefore, that this is not his response to great challenges in his political life. He confronts nothing and, if he does have a resolute belief that something can be done, it is flawlessly concealed. Brown does not act, he is acted upon. Which is why it suddenly came to me that there is a perfectly named scientific metaphor for his conduct in power. He is the big blue ball, the little red ones are his allies, his enemies and events, dear boy, events.  

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  1. I get so tired of Brown's moralising, his stated belief in his duty and public service. He's political from crop to bunion and has already recognised that heb'll lose the next election. He just wants to enjoy every last moment in power and it's his own vanity that now stands in the way of what's good for his party and the country.

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  2. Yes, a nice idea. It is rather disturbing that whenever the "Prime Mentalist" is asked a question these days, he lets his jaw drop slightly and makes a plum with his mouth, as if his tongue had suddenly become too big for it. Perhaps he really has a long coiled reptilian tongue, with a huge sticky blob on the end of it, which he is surreptitiously trying to force back down his throat to fish out a briefing paper from one of his five stomachs. Off-the-cuff, impromptu, human in a word, isn't really his thing, is it.

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  3. We pondered your new photo whilst having a nice cup of tea in Debenhams. The wife finally nailed it: 'He looks like Charles Azanavour checking his hernia'.

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  4. Debenhams? No wonder I looked like Aznavour.

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  5. Tea in Debenhams or a pint in The Magpie & Stump, you did look more cheerful in your more rotund incarnation. Can you get them to take a different photo for the Sunday Times? One that makes it look less like you are about to be carted off to the guillotine.

    Are we sure that the new diet hasn't added a note of melancholia to your thinking? Your posts recently - particularly as regards Palin - have been verging on the maudlin/hysterical. Cheer up old fruit. Help yourself to a Persian peach.

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  6. Looks as though it is a direct quote from Mein Kampf. Anyone got a copy?

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  7. Perhaps a diet of high meat protein will automatically prompt a hunter/killer mindset. It makes sense if body & mind influence each other as much as i think they do. You eat lots of steak for breakfast, your mind thinks "I am a killer", hence you go for the jugular, Palin lies dead beneath spear-like thrusts of the mind.

    i tried to increase my meat intake but it did funny things to my brain so i returned to my usual hippy diet of bread & fruit, with resulting equanimity and a big, Buddha-like grin.

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