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Predictions? I’m in for “Tony does not die (yet). Tony does get raped by Replacement Greg, though.”
Also: “The plasticene/robot/? character we saw in the background of a panel in issue two will team up with Ned for a thrilling adventure. This agents’s name is Marty, he has a jolly but sometimes baffling sense of humour, and his hobbies include astronomy (a fact that will prove very important as the story unfolds).”
And finally: “An old friend will ring you with good news.”
Yawn – what do you mean about the suits? Don’t understand. Going from “Old Evil” to “New & Improved Evil” or whatever doesn’t really count as changing suits, does it? More like…changing ties, or something. I suppose I can see how you might find it a bit silly and annoying…
Time – I don’t know about time. Or God, for that matter. The “cruel to be kind” interpretation of their actions seems fair enough when applied to the events of my own life, so far. But when I look at how Time and God treat some of the other people in the world, that “cruel to be kind” justification seems to fall apart. I’m not sure what “kindness” was involved in their treatment of my baby brother, for example. He’s just dead, now, and it’s not like he can learn any lessons from getting killed, or anything.
I don’t know. Maybe if you’ve had a wonderful spiritual experience where you learn that “there is no death there is no death” – and you become convinced that “all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well” – then things look different.
Have you read Candide? At the end of the book…Candide: “Why does God allow all these terrible things to happen???” The Sufi: “When the Sultan sends his ships out to sea, does he worry about whether the rats in the cellar are comfortable?”
So, yeah, Mr. Drummond, Ms. Emin, yawn/undo… yeah, God’s a fucking cunt.
…Sometimes, though, my attitude is more influenced by Buddha’s parable about the arrow stuck in your chest – no point in asking where it came from, why it’s there, calling God names…first thing to do is get the damn thing out. That’s if I can drag myself away from those pornographic comics for long enough. (In Candide, the Sufi first responded to Candide’s question by asking “Why are you even thinking about this?” I guess he had the same idea as Buddha?)
Who knows, fingers crossed, maybe it'll turn out in the end that God's a cunt in the other, nicer, sense of the word.
Is this thread-rot? I don’t honestly think it is – but yell at me if you want me to shut up.
And welcome back, yawn – I missed you! Hearing someone enthuse about something I also love gives me a major buzz, for some reason. And you enthuse very well. |
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