What in the name of God is Harper doing by eliminating the mandatory long form census questionnaire? Why would he want to deprive us of the ability to know ourselves better? Know thyself, said Socrates. I guess Harper doesn’t take his orders from Socrates. It is true that Socrates thought that this newfangled “writing” thing would rot people’s brains (fortunately Plato thought differently, or we never would have heard of Socrates), so he may not be the be all end all, but I do think he had something with the “know thyself” bit.
I can’t help but ascribe sinister motives to Harper in pretty much everything he does. If only he had credible opposition he wouldn’t last the year.
Alas.
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Yes, you’re all quite right, it’s time I picked up the blogging again.
To answer Mr. Lozinski, the novel is not quite finished, but we’re getting there, certainly another eight or nine years and I’ll have it. Sigh. But seriously, I am just tidying up the second last chapter, after which there is the last chapter to sort out, then a brief epilogue. My main accomplishment over the last little while has been jettisoning an entire section having to do with seagulls, which I tried desperately to make work but was, in the end, clearly a digression that could not be made to work because it just didn’t belong.
I’m on vacation now for a couple of weeks. Not doing too much of anything, family visiting, off to Stratford to see Peter Pan this time next week. Reading an excellent book by the name of The Annubis Gates by Tim Powers. It’s the first Powers book I’ve read but I quite like it, quite similar in tone (if not content) to the novels of his good buddy Blaylock, author of several terrific, rather understated reads.
Nothing of tremendous import to report or relate, sadly, perhaps why blogging has been minimal of late.
Perhaps I will attempt the odd deep thought later in this vacation…
