Currant Affairs

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Cake day: November 7th, 2025
  • All of What a Fool Believes

    He came from somewhere back in her long ago,
    The sentimental fool don’t see-
    Tryin’ hard to recreate,
    What had yet to be created. Once in her life
    She musters a smile,
    For his nostalgic tale.
    Never coming near what he wanted to say
    Only to realize:
    It never really was.

    She~ had a place in his life,
    He~ never made her think twice…
    As he rises to her apology
    Anybody else would surely know
    He’s watching her go

    But what a fool believes~, he sees~
    No-wise-man-has-the-power(!) to reason away, [if love can come, and love can go-]
    What seems~ to be~ [-why can’t love return, oh no]
    Is always better than nothing
    And nothing at all~… keeps sending him…

    Somewhere back in her long ago.
    Where he can still believe there’s a place in her life,
    Someday, somewhere… she will return.

    She~ had a place in his life,
    He~ never made her think twice…
    As he rises to her apology
    Anybody else would surely know
    He’s watching her go…

    But what a fool believes~, he sees~
    No-wise-man-has-the-power(!) to reason away, [I believe she’s never gone away]
    What seems~ to be~ [no, nah nah]
    Is always better than nothing
    And nothing at all~… keeps sending him…

  • I realise I have read nowhere near enough books to answer this definitively.

    I’d say war and peace is actually the stand out, but then I know other Russian authors like dostoevsky did similar books. War and place’s u illness is that tolstoy writes like a kid who doesn’t realise that curtailment/limitation is a core facets of book writing - he tries and succeeds in writing the lives of many people over the course of many years; it’s big. You see it and go “oh that’s it? I could read that, actually.” But when you sit down to read it, you’re hit eith another big Ness- it’s detail. Tolstoy is in no rush to get the story off it’s feet. He wants you feel everything and note every detail. Live through the soiree, the mundanity, and the trauma as well as the glory at the end of the book. That’s war and peace.

    At the moment I’m reading Chaucer’s Canterbury tales and even though it’s one of the very oldest “classics” of English literature, (beaten out by beowulf and maybe something else) I think people still “sleep upon it.” There’s something really special about how sequenced and ordered it is, and the novel is a scherezade (a story is told within a story being told within a story). Also portrays medieval culture through the lens of medieval contempories, and it’s surprisingly close to the stereotype - there’s lots of crude and physical humour, adultery and the threat of physical reprisal for all manner of things. Great - maybe even essential -for learning how to effectively write medieval settings.

It doesn’t even have to be about politics - this can be lifestyle, philosophy, or movie critique. Maybe a different celebrity for each different thing you’re particularly opinionated on.

I’m fond of Anthony Bourdain’s views on cooking, for instance, and on how to learn cookery. But he’s a bit of a rascal when it comes to how he treats others.

I like C.S Lewis’s views on life, faith, and epistemology.

As for politicians, well, I doubt any politician alive today accurately shares my views. But i could composite from a few; for instance i found it sensible that Jeremy corbyn (UK ex-leader of Labour) wanted to nationalise many things asap no matter the shock to the economy - buying them back presumably becomes harder the more time that passes.