Apart from that, such things as are happening at the moment
are complex and lacking the potential for humorous comment, disdainful
outbursts, or lyrical expression. (Besides, Ivanka Trump says that I’m a very
unpleasant person for speaking disparagingly about her dad, and far be it from
me to gainsay a woman who dresses and talks like a Barbie Doll.) So I’m at a
bit of a loss.
I admit to being intrigued by the sudden rash of visits from
Illinois by a person using an iPad or iPhone,
and I’m even more intrigued to know why somebody from Utah
would explicitly seek out a post entitled An
Antipodean Muse, since the antipodes of Utah
is in the southern Indian Ocean a very long way from anywhere. And that, at
least, did set me off on an educational journey. I searched for and discovered
a website which gives the antipodes of every point on earth, and I discovered
that the true antipodes of England
is in the Pacific Ocean to the south east of New Zealand.
So then I remembered a film I watched once in which a bunch
of 17th century English coalminers kept digging down into the earth
until they came out the other side. Where they emerged was on a hill overlooking
one of the Australian cities, at which point it became a story about time shift and culture
shock. Actually, they should have just drowned.
And I did muse today on the question of why some people
prefer dogs to cats, and decided it was something to do with the fact that
humans might recognise the nature of a cat’s intelligence, but they don’t
actually understand it. So then I mused on why other people prefer cats to
dogs, but stopped when I realised that I might come up with an answer which
would risk offending my friend Maddie…
This isn’t going anywhere. Bye.
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