Remember the famous cartoon beagle's description of Wednesday, smack in the middle of the working week? I believe the sentiment goes "Please God, Let Me Die!!!!!" (Friday is "Shopping Day!!!!")
Well, Wednesday's now, I look forward to CSI (Las Vegas, the first of Jerry B's serialised crime scene drama) and Boston Legal.
There's something very comforting about the scene where 2 utterly cynical guys sit on the rooftop and contemplate their wins and losses. More often, there's a philosophical sense of loss (of ideals, physical ability) or passing of an age of innocence and simplicity.
Having nearly lost everything myself, I share the sense of looking around this financial storm and , like Danny Crane and Alan Shore,find contentment (philosophical or otherwise sheer schadenfreude or glee at the foibles of others)in knowing that when all is lost, or won, the victim or the victor is much the same person. (In their case, they remain silly old men given to dressing up as pink flamingos - I kid you not).So, if my recent posts are kind of sombre, get a bird's eye view of things. Rudyard Kipling considers winning or losing but mere faces of some "great impostor".
Of course, sometimes the naming guys get it right. The picture is like the parliament or townhall of Hamburg. Its called Rathaus, pronounced "rat house". How about that?
Addendum: If anyone's interested, the actual lines in Kipling's "If" reads as follows:"If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same"
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