Conorthoughts

Up Late

 

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"So it goes."

 

Kurt Vonnegut died this week at the age of 84. He was best known for this phrase and for the novel Slaughterhouse Five in which he used it - repeatedly - for the first time. He wrote with humour, black, Vonnegutesque. 

 

Desperate measure

Desperate measure. My therapist says ...  My ex-girlfriend says, writes ...

I need to post something here. I've haven't posted for ages. The Way of the Cross, the way of the word. What would Warburg think of that as a remark? Nothing, probably? Something, perhaps.

What can I post? Anything? Down to the wall. Another Oompah Loompah dog?  Hardly.

Here is my street, Lupus, in Google Maps. Count five (houses) from the left and I'm somewhere down there, beneath two layers of probably still sleeping bodies, looking, on a beautiful April morning, at the trees in the school-yard opposite, one of which you just make out. Damn, it doesn't work! Desperate measure, to be continued.