Love the Unfamiliar Name

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Well, like all anniversaries, it had to come, and now it's here: what last year was the happy and glorious 11th; no more

The next miserable anniversary will be 30th August (i.e. T + 366).  All Thursdays remain as a weekly and poignant reminder of what was and what should have been.

I am grateful to the late Rosamond Lehmann who included the following two pieces in her autobiographical The Swan in the Evening.

"She turned away from me, and she went through the Fair;

And fondly I watched her move here and move there;

And she went on her way, with one star awake,

As the Swan in the evening moves over the lake."

                                                    (Trad.)

"Who then devised the torment? Love.

Love is the unfamiliar Name

Behind the hands that wove

The intolerable shirt of flame

Which human power cannot remove."

                                    (T.S.Eliot)

Poetry in this case is no comfort - just perhaps a little sympatique.

Edit: the exact anniversary in fact occurs at 01 26 on 12th August, but given the rest of what transpired a year ago, 11th is good enough.  I AM a pedant.

Until the next time

Killing a Few Minutes

In four minutes it will be 11th August 2012.

I have another depressing post already prepared for this tragic date; just waiting until midnight; I can then post the message and with luck, the pills will have begun to work.

This is no kind of life, no kind of life at all.

Sorry.

Ah! Just one minute to go...

Until the next time.

Anniversary Looms

29/28

Saturday is 11th August; how happy I was that day last year.

Thursday is, and will be, horrid.

Until the next time

Relativity

No, not the sort of relativity that Albert Einstein "invented" and which, despite numerous attempts at explanation (including by the brilliant T) I completely fail to comprehend.

The relativity I have in mind this evening concerns cost.

Space News reported that the cost of NASA's current Mars programme has reached $2.5 billions.

Peanuts.

I say "peanuts" because of the staggering achievement of transporting a vehicle of astounding versatility, not to say complexity, weighing about a ton, about 352 million miles, and delivering it to a point just 2km from its target on the surface of the Red Planet.  And the amazing vehicle, so capable, has arrived undamaged and has already started its work.

Peanuts again.

Meanwhile, in London a sporting competition has been put on.  It is a very large sporting competition, including top-class sportsmen and women from all around the world.  The goings-on have dominated the news media and caused havoc in terms of traffic congestion; also many businesses have suffered loss of trade in consequence.

Cost? about £13 billions - and that's just what we have been told about; I suspect that there will be a substantial financial hangover afterwards as has been the case in other countries foolish enough to claim the glory of presenting the Olympic Games.

Not peanuts; not peanuts at all.

Until the nest time.

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A Tangled Web

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There is no shortage of blogs in the so-called "blogosphere" - how many?  Does anyone know?  Yes of course; Wikipedia knows - over 156,000,000 last year.

Well I came across one the other day; brand-new and something about it appeals - not least the name adopted by the owner: Daintycorpse.  Goes well with STYX I think, and so I have included the blog in my list of links: O What a Tangled Web We Weave

Please visit and give Daintycorpse your full support.

Until the next time.

Another Thursday Passes

28/27


And, now that we are already in August, more depression looms as soon some significant anniversaries will arrive:  11th August, 30th August, with more to come in September.


It only gets worse.


Forget any other bollocks that I have written here; I love her, pure and simple.


Until the next time