Thoughts of an Anarchist

When you see this, post a quote from Douglas Adams on your blog.

“I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

“But,” says Man, “the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don’t. QED.”

“Oh dear,” says God, “I hadn’t thought of that,” and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

“Oh, that was easy,” says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

This requires, I feel, a national period of mourning.

Those of us who are avid readers of his blog have been missing him, but he frankly deserves the break.

Not the break in his arm, I mean the break from writing.

Oh, sssh, Abbi. Stop fangirling.

Which reminds me, I must review ‘Moab is my Washpot’ at some point, which the excellent Fish bought me for Christmas, and I adored.

Mr Fry has a blog on his excellent website, www.stephenfry.com, and for those of you who are technically minded, it turns out that he is as well. He’s also written some rather lovely stuff on fame, addiction, and global warming, none of which are preachy. Each article is roughly as long as it takes you to have a cuppa and a biscuit, or some cheese on toast, which is just lovely.

Oh, I must get a copy of Wilde. It’s a superb film, it really is, and the courtroom scene gets me every time. ‘The love that dare not speak it’s name…’, oh, Oscar Wilde. Can’t wait for January when we start Dorian Gray, which is a beautiful book, even with that frankly irksome chapter in the middle in which we learn in great detail about various carpets Dorian buys - a fascinating look into his insanity, but still incredibly dull. Otherwise, it really is, as IMHO all Oscar Wilde’s work is, a smashing book.

Look, Stephen Fry appears to have a webcam on his mac
(image (c) Stephen Fry):

I look forward to finding out exactly why he is in America and what precisely he is filming. HIV and Me made me go out and tell some of my friends that Stephen Fry said they should wear condoms, so why weren’t they using condoms? God only knows what I’ll end up saying this time. : )

Abs x