Wednesday, 3 August 2011

100 WORDS A DAY: This Life Business


It’s all a bit much, really, this life business. Its certain uncertainties; death and when it will surprise us, the untimeliness of failure, visits from the in-laws. To add to the confusion there’s a smorgasbord of isms to be for or to be against or to be Switzerland; capitalism, Marxism, passivism, feminism. It’s a cataclysm of isms of who is or who isn’t an -ist. And for a real laugh it all crescendos with the anticlimax of and "then he died", at which point your entire existence is a murmured summary of misquotes and badly told anecdotes in passing conversation. (22June11)

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