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Ulysses is still very slow going.
Today
Has been one of those strange mixes of days in which you have a lot to do, but can't quite get down to doing it because the other things you have to do come and poke their noses round the door just as you were making progress with the first thing.
Hubby suggested this morning that I start a new blog called "My boss is a twat". Tempting though the thought is, I thought that that might dignify his existence a little too much. He is though.
But perhaps I should have "theme of the week", or actually get round to getting a comments thingy, on which people could put suggestions.
Actually though, I think a comments thingy is a good idea, but I wouldn't want to get any nasty comments. Which is probably unrealistic. I think I forget sometimes that the internet is peopled by strangers, and people who I might not like if I met them, and they might not like me if they read me. Although I am sure that there are some very nice people on the internet too, which would write some very lovely and complimentary things on my blog. But you can't just say that you want only compliments. I don't think that that is quite what it is about!
It seemed like a good idea at the time
to read the 100 best loved books, but I am stuck on Ulysses. I am only a quarter of the way through, and I have been reading it for two weeks. I thought it best to read now, rather than save until the end, at which point I might cheat and give up. But it is very, very, very slow going.
I have another few books coming on Amazon though, and I may try to finish Ulysses by the end of next weekend.
I am feeling a little better now...
I think.
I have not been feeling all that well for a few weeks, and now I have a stomach ache. But I think that may be too many cold cherries at lunch-time.
Possibly.
Ummm...
The first paragraph of my last post doesn't make sense. Well, it does to me, but might not to anyone reading this. That's cos the way in which you type in blogs has changed. Which I could see as I typed this, but you couldn't as you read it.
So, it's all rubbish, really :-)
Change
is inevitable, I suppose, and I'm sure that there is a very good reason why all this has changed, but I don't know what it is, and that always leaves me edgy.
I had a lengthy, but good-natured, argument with a work colleague today, during the course of which I called him a literary Nazi and arrogant. And all over
Harry Potter. Now, for the sake of clarity, I do not think that aforesaid Mr Potter's books represent high literature, nor do I read them for any reason other than I enjoy them. Which after all is why we read most things (apart from
Ulysses, which is slow going!).
However, I do take exception to people saying that they haven't read something, that they don't intend to, but that they've read reviews, and it's bad/rubbish. What gives someone the right to make value judgments with the implied sense that if you don't agree, you're just as bad. I think that's no less than arrogant. Fair enuff to say "I've read the reviews, but I'm not reading it, because I don't think I'll enjoy it, and I'm not a kid". Fine, your choice. But how can anyone say that they know enough about anything to confidently say "It's bad".
The argument descended into morality at that point, and whether murder is bad or not, and whether you should qualify every view with an "I think". Well, I think you should. Because I may not be right. I don't like to read Milton as bedtime reading, but that doesn't mean those who do (and I'm sure that there are some) are wrong. I haven't read any books by Will Self because I don't like his on-screen persona. But some people have, and he sells well. I guess what I'm saying is that there are horses for courses, and others shouldn't knock what other people like just because they don't. It's a pretty simplistic view of the work to think that one is right all the time.
And as for murder, and the complex moral arguments, I think that one's stance on those simply defines one's own personal moral sense. There are few who think murder
is acceptable, so it's a pretty extreme argument, but there are others which could be taken. And the fact of the matter is that other people have different views, and, at the end of the day (and particularly for those with a religious bent who believe in a Day of Judgment and all that), who is actually there to say that I am right, or the next person is right.
And, I don't care if said colleague thinks
Harry Potter is bad; I enjoy it.
Et puis, apres les vacances...
comes the inveitable bout of illness.
But hopefully after a very relaxing week in France, normal service will be resumed here. Which of course means sporadic service.
I have been brave today. I went to see a man about a job. Hopefully he will give me a job in his team, and I can escape from the boss from hell, who makes cretins look like Einstein. That's not fair really, but, honestly. Memo to boss: if you apply for a team leader's job, it means you lead a team. You take the money, now stop the whinging.
