Contrariness Inc

Dogs On Extra-terrestrial Life

Mummy finks urra peeps is crazy cause Mummy knows me
and the Blongo* can municate. But none of the Tlever peeps
finks that like science tests. So Mummy finks that id we cant
muinicate wif aminalies on our own planet what chance
have we got of municating with aliens from urra part of the
universe? None chance thats how mucy. Municate municate
no no.

*Connor the dogs name for his canine friend Bailey

taken from My Epileptic Lurcher, a cracker of a book.

Thinking Is Not Always An Error

but for those who need to fool the public
and each other in popularity contests
pluralistic ignorance is free,
on request. Costs, like consequences,
will have to be dealt with later.

Oh To Find The World Afresh....

If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential, [I should] wish for the eye
-which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
I should wish for pleasures that never disappoint.
What is so sparkling, so fragrant a wine,
what is so intoxicating as possibility!'-Soren Kierkagaard 

Signs Of Greater Age (17)

Listening to the news on the radio and losing concentration
well before the end of the bulletin, even though it is brief,
because you are more interested in how it will be satirised
by comics at the end of the week than you are engaged
by what the news is actually telling you about life today.

One Of The Surprising Things

about depression is that it never recognises
 how it shapes the world it is part of.....

The Zero-Gain Sum Of Human History

Cain to Abel;'I hate you',
Abel to Cain;'Whatever....'
God to himself;'.......   '