How to say nothing with a large vocabulary.

Saturday, 15 May 2010

For I are I, and I are you.

No, but, in all seriousness, today I enjoyed a perfect demonstration of just who I am. At 15.14 I went to the local newsagents, and the woman working their asked me, in perfect broken English, why I wasn't "watching football". Aside from resisting the temptation to say, "you missed an article there, love", I wasn't sure how well my answer would go down. That's not to say I am ashamed, far from it, I just can't be bothered to explain it. For, when 80% of my city (c. 200,000 people) is watching their local team play in some kind of big football final (Bladder-ball-cup, soccer-world, idk?) I am sitting here, at my desk, reading Sam Harris' spectacularly fantastical The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and The Future of Reason.

Aye, enjoy your tomfoolery, boys; I, meanwhile, your erstwhile writer, will be enjoying his atheistic debunking of religious prestidigitation. And suck on that sentence. Y'all can all run around: wordplay > actual play.

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And thus two new tattoos are born:

"Don't be afraid, it's your life: be brave."
"As a man believes, so he will act."

This is going to be impossible to decide. :(

(As a little context, the other few up for consideration include my two favourite quotes (The biblical 'iniquity' from the Prayer of Manasses, and 'incarnadine' the Shakespearian quote about guilt. Both can be found somewhere else on here. As a little one for me, however, I also like, "lol. cuddles." I think, to satiate my wants, I will have to plump for all 5. Now it's just a question of ranking them in preferential order. To start, I feel, 'As a man believes, so he will act': it demonstrates a useful standard by which I can get mine done. Woo, etc.).

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