On one of these "planetary bodies"

there is said to be water and ice
and, possibly, what we, in our ignorance,
call "life".

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If all that is great lies in the past,

what is the point of the future ?

The best thing about dogs

(perhaps even for those who dislike them)
is their transparency.

If you've still got a sense of humour

you haven't really suffered.

Life is...

1. (seriously) Just a consciousness-trap.
2. (frivolously) A waste of gas.

Before the "Garden of Eden"

it is not beyond the bounds of possibility#
that palæolithic adolescents (if not their seniors)
sucked each others' cocks.

If only...

...Jean Genet and Rosa Luxemburg
had met in prison !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08lfc77

"True Liberty necessarily involves the freedom to think differently

from everyone around you."

While you are cooking,

a dog in the kitchen
is like a man watching porn.

A Massacre of Holy Innocents

"Liberal, democratic"

has come to mean
"élitist" -
which it always was !
(Though you may have detected
that élite
actually means both "elect" and "elected".)

The Moth Appreciation Society of South-west France

would like you to look at
these,

not this.

Simply put,

consciousness is simply hubris.
More discursively,
it is just the addled, ill and composite illusion
of the brain's trillions of connections
that they form one whole - and unique - self.
So human consciousness resists
its own invented sense of reason
in a desperate attempt
to prove unto itself that it actually exists.

We wear shoes

to protect our soft feet
and keep them soft.
We wear socks
to protect our feet from our shoes:
a cultural solution
to anti-evolution.

Astérix on the Mummification of Cats in Ancient Egypt

Tombs are sunless.
Cats are funless.

Astérix

My kind and loyal readers

seem to be mostly in the USA.
There are none in Ireland
from which slurry-green isle
I am an exultant exile.

                          Дякую ! 

                  谢谢

Mathematics.

All numbers
No qualities

All solutions
No compromises

All puzzles
No wisdom

Googly-eyed Stubby Squid.

I think it's hoping for a quiet cuddle.

How stupid the names and two dates.

How stupid the tombstones.
How lovely the rot
and the worms
and the bones.

The wonderful thing about paintings

is that they are wordless
and have no beginning or end
except for the changeable
oft-inappropriate frame,
and are not static, but phatic,
and, though fading and flaking,
are as timeless as graveyards.
Paintings don't run out of words.

I would forgive

a dog anything,
but a human not much.

The beginning and the end of a poem.

Words are the flesh and the bones of thoughts,
and life for us humans is a holocaust of words.

A few words on Art.

It gets ever harder
to appreciate
than to create.

Paws for Thought.

A vacuum
is a space
without a dog.

Long-eared Jerboas.

My problem with 'democracy';

is that it is an expensive and easily-corrupted method
of giving The Vote to far worse people than mere litter-louts,
tax-fraudsters and sugar-refiners.
The most sensible solution for Representative Government
would be parliamentarians selected by lot. 
It would cost almost nothing,
there would be no crap about The Will of The People,
and the resulting random selection would not be worse
than what we have got.  Parties could then be abolished, too.  What bliss ! Perhaps one or two dogs could be co-opted into parliament
for occasional stroking and reality-check.

It's always the poor who suffer.

'Giant python swallows Indonesian farmer whole.

Body of missing man, who vanished while harvesting his crops,
found in belly of seven-metre long snake...'

We need more giant pythons

in (or under) seats of government.

All we need to know about the expansionism

of European 'Christians'
is contained in this talentless but revealing
(if not revelling) hymn:

The Son of God goes forth to war
  A kingly crown to gain:
His blood-red banner streams afar;
  Who follows in His train ?
Who best can drink His cup of woe,
  Triumphant over pain,
Who patient bears His Cross below
  He follows in His train.

"He saved others,

but himself he cannot save!"
Precisely.
Because he knew the human self
is worth no more, no less,
than water in a wave ?
Deeply countercultural
and not without defect
he was like the best of us,
I guess, in that respect.

In my Next Incarnation

I fancy being an Emperor-

Tamarin 

- presumably so-named because it vaguely resembles

an Emperor of China...
I love its ears.

I think I might be an animal-ears fetishist.

Some lovely lines

from John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany:

"Of course, there is no heart, however serious, that finds the death of culture entirely lacking in entertainment."

"Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves!  And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country."

"She must have thought it a pity that some poor fools had to waste their lives writing in order for us to have sufficient reading material."

Although Politics is not like Bridge nor even Poker,

the "Far Right"
unlike the "Far Left"
almost always
"declare their hand".

A mathematical thought.

Infinity = Never  ± Always

This morning I heard a cuckoo

for the first time this spring.
Tomorrow the swifts and swallows will arrive.
Or maybe the day after.

There's rarely an empty moment

that someone does not fill
with hypocrisy - or worse.
(is the Big H the greatest curse ?)

My dog says

that to a dog
humans are extraordinary
and extraordinarily unpredictable
chimpanzees.

Another great book-title:

How to endure people
and have no need of friends.

Almost everybody

has more money than sense
- for money eradicates
sensibility.

This Incredible Spring

the flowers in bloom simultaneously
here in south-west France include:
violets, primroses, periwinkles (major and minor),
cowslips, lesser celandines, ladies-smocks,
poppies, lilac, wisteria,
judas-tree, iris, toothwort,
tormentil, scabious, service-tree,
lungwort, larkspurs, scillas,
grape-hyacinths, wood-anemones,
quinces, apples, plums and cherries,
devil's milk or greater celandine,
chionodoxas, magnolias, japonicas (chaenomeles)...

You might puzzle over the difference between InformANT and InformER,

but have you ever thought about this ?

Cosmetic labels.

There is, of course,
no difference between
an informant and an informer,
whatever you are told,
however you are sold.

There is more god in a dog

than in all the churches,
mosques and temples
in the world.

The lower down the social heap you are,

the more accepting and cheerful
you have to be.

Perennial Fool.

No mammal is weaker than the human,
hence technology.
Whereas all other predators prey upon
the very young, or very old, or sick: the weak,
the modern human prides himself
on preying on the strong -
especially impressive males. Man is a freak.

Nobody really needs

a relationship
except to hold
as some kind of property
or else be beholden
and some kind of property
and (most often) breed
the most intense
and expensive kind of
personal property.

People, people,

coming and going
rushing and crushing
crammed with stories
banal tales
that they believe
that they want to believe
that others have made them believe
Stories
clattering, battering,
charging, enlarging
inside the rinds
of their skulls
until they escape
and penetrate
ever more minds.

Astérix, he say :

Katz is Vermin.
Not just a sermon -
he is doing his Belgian best
to eradicate this pesky pest.

(Be grateful!)

NOM D'UN CHIEN !

999 is the emergency number in the UK and Ireland
and the number of names of holy Astérix,

which include

As the Terrible, Cuddly, Importunate
Basho
Genghiz
Inshallah
Bonzo
Sibelius
Vjetoslav
Sweetie
Wargle
Wolverine
Muesli
Toutou
Crocus
Nymble
Rug of the Future
The We of Me
The You of Us
Love-starved
Jalaluddin
Killer
Dishcloth
Noodle
Tiddlyballs
Megabyte
Shadow
Dongle
Archeopteryx
Honey
Hyena
Doodah
Kissydog
Grollicle
Argus
Pongo
Pascal
Rascal
Rajah
Holiness
Catfood
Rover
Cerberus
BigSilly
Rex
Hoxha
Jampot
BigEars
Issa
Snoopy
Loopy
Dr Doolittle
Dog
Omar
Gorgeous
Happy
Hungry
Trotsky
Lucky
Wolfgang
Woozle
Diogenes
Magnus
Tiglath Pileser
Pocopatepetl
Buster
Bosun
Einstein
Doolally
Bilbo
Smidgewidge
Ujku
Rimbaud
Sirius
Farty Doodlet
Tattybogle
Jack the Ripper
Djugashwilly
Aneurin
Bambi
Douglas Fur
Oisín
Bangalore
Jabberwocky
Pussycat
Saint-Roch
Redeemer
Ludo...

When the clocks go forward

it is time to visit my grave.

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(It will be time to die

when incompetence

catches up with incontinence.)

Not-quite-Reductionism.

There are just two kinds of religion:
the old and the less-old.
The less-old are religions of belief
(Christianity, Islam)
while the old are religions of practice
(all others, including Judaism).
This difference has created modern history
through colonialism which has made Jesus
the Antichrist, and Mohamed
the enslaver.

https://aeon.co/essays/how-an-obscure-oriental-cult-converted-a-vast-pagan-roman-empire

Two sentences from 'The Color Purple':

[God] just sit up there glorying in being deef, I reckon.

The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair is kinky.

I have never understood why coloured people took and take so enthusiastically to a joyless white (and joyless white men's. tight-lipped white women's) god. Is it 'just' self-oppression ?  Or Stockholm Syndrome ?  Or both ?