Friday, January 30, 2009
This Fatal January
Great God, now the Bearded Wonder is dead! We shall never see his like again, they don't make them like that any more, they threw away the mould etc etc.. This after Updike. Is it me or is this a peculiarly fatal January? Two members of my (extended) family have died, my old solicitor just bought the farm. Others, many others, have gone into the dark. We should count ourselves lucky if we make it to February. Be careful tomorrow. Midnight should bring salvation.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
FYI - might be a problem on my end only, but am currently unable to read the comments section of your earlier "Blog info Required" post. All I get is a completely blank page. Not having this problem with any other comment section thus far.
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ReplyDelete..And on such a miserable January day too? the promise of spring and summer is pushed further into the distance.
ReplyDeleteStrange times indeed, we have been remarking on the similarity to the winter of discontent. An old friend has just told me he has, if lucky, six months to live. I couldn't bring myself to say to him what's lucky about that. Sombre times, I never, ever thought we would have to go through such uncertainty again, the young have my sympathy, unless they happen to be bankers, lawyers or politicians of course, they can go fuck themselves.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you Bryan but the last time feelings like these were abroad was when the penny dropped regarding the very real, looming nuclear Armageddon, courtesy of Messrs Kennedy & Khrushchev.
On top of all of that Oddie goes and hands his notice in.
This one genuinely upsets me. RIP Bearders.
ReplyDeleteFrom Norm 'The bearded wonder has been given out - a bad piece of umpiring if ever there was one.'
ReplyDeleteYes, this January has been exceptional. My mother died a couple of weeks ago, also the son of some friends. Several others passing: Tony Hart, John Mortimer, Andrew Wyeth and Kathleen Byron. But somehow Bill Frindall's death seemed especially sad - we really shall not see his like.....
ReplyDeleteJohn Martyn. I liked him.
ReplyDeleteEveryone dies, everyone. Why this sense of shock? We are all going into that great goodnight and the only lesson to take from it is that you need to enjoy your life NOW.
ReplyDeleteI am. Off to NYC today to savor some of the charms of the greatest city in the world. Be happy, mes amis. Do something you enjoy today. Make love to your spouses or significant others, hug your children, laugh with your friends. We are all ephemera here; that is the one truth.
No it isn't, Susan.
ReplyDelete(Though it is, I'm sure, important enough.)