Tuesday, December 19, 2006

In Praise of Reason Taking a Holiday

Granting the good Toby Lewis a Spanish break over the Xmas the board acted in a way that should be a beacon to the Blured Way of slave labourers. Toby, always with that double-edged sword of reason never slipping from his hand, is reasonable enough to know that reason itself needs a break sometimes from itself. One cannot eat reason and one cannot cuddle reason in a bed of roses. Long live the deserved long holidays in search of the Spanish delights of both body and mind away from pure reason.

We are reminded here of Homer. His writings were always alive and well in a world where each and every hero needed to eat and drink and actually live a real life. Shame that so many novelists live only inside of their own abstract selves as they are fed by others. We are also reminded that the New Zealand example remains significant. All working folk deserve a paid holiday and sometimes long holidays unless they are to be slaves to the market and used as mere prostitutes satisfying those that pay.

15 comments:

anticant said...

Good morning,Zola. It's a nasty, damp,cold, foggy morning here in London. Yes, I envy Toby. My friend in Andalucia reports lovely sunny days but freezing nights. Wish I too was in Spain!

zola a social thing said...

G'Day Anticant : Now you show your second self do you? All that "reason" you talk you do. Now you want the sun and Spain you do.
As for a poor Lapland it is minus 16 degrees centigrade but threatening to be plus 4 degrees by friday. Madness it is up here right now.
I do not know which knickers to wear as this weather keeps changing so fast.
LavenderBlue has said that she will send me an assortment for Xmas.

Anonymous said...

Clean or dirty?

Anonymous said...

Time to go commando.
Bit frosty though.

anticant said...

How about Shocking Pink leather? I was once misguided enough to wear a tie of this material and shade when addressing a meeting, and am told that it caused scandalised comment for weeks afterwards.....

Yes, I'm all for sunny Spain. Love the Algarve, I do. Have had some super-relaxing holidays there. Never again, I fear.

Anonymous said...

"All working folk deserve a paid holiday and sometimes long holidays unless they are to be slaves to the market and used as mere prostitutes satisfying those that pay."

Thanks for that. It is nice that someone cares.

So Toby is off to Spain, Szwagier is off being wobbly, and I am off to Blighty tomorrow morning at 6. What are you doing A and Z?

Cool. Hadn't realised until now. A and Z are the Alpha and Omega of WeblogWorld.

zola a social thing said...

What more can be said i ask.
Yet another wrecking of me thread !!!

zola a social thing said...

Anyway LavenderBlue always sends me an assortment of knickers. Clean or dirty is merely a personal sniff here or there. Nothing pure in life is there?

YD : Now i need to change my name to zzola. You caught me out again.

Hope Swagi wobbles well. I thought he was just on a Polish bender.

Anticant : Pink leather is not just shocking it is disgusting. I will put those words on my banning list herewith.

Anonymous said...

And just what is wrong with pink leather............knickers look nice....
and ZoZo - are you being unfaithful to me - I suspect that you have asked Anonymous for panties too...........
and Anticant - have you still got the tie ??
and Yellow, as you fly overhead, commando, I will be searching the skies for a glimpse of you.......sighs

zola a social thing said...

May I say sorry for everything that is already said or to be said.
But there was a DECENT thread there somewhere earlier if I recall.
Please consider Toby. Our philosopher seeking the reason for a holiday.
At least LavenderBlue has woken up.

Anticant talked about "Mellow Yellow" meaning the swimming peaceful duck.
What about the electrical banana from the same song? ( Don something or other but not Quixote)
Xmas quiz for Chris White so he can get his postgrad diploma.

anticant said...

Yes, lavender, I do still have the tie. My partner gave it to me. How could I part with it?

Yellowduck, we're spending Christmas quietly at home, as usual, ignoring the greedy drunken razzmatazz as much as possible. Nothing to celebrate this year, anyway, because of the wobbly state of our healths.

Anonymous said...

Sounds nevertheless like a good way to spend your Christmas, anticant. But sorry to hear that your health is so bad.

Anonymous said...

Look southwards Lavender at 6 o' clock in the morning and you may catch the stars reflecting on my yellow feathers.

Anonymous said...

Oh Zola. I think that Reason is but an Illusion and even only just qualifies to be termed thus.

As some drunk long-forgotten Persian poet once said:

All is water, earth is illusionary.

zola a social thing said...

Well Yellow Duck hope you have landed safely on the tarmac and the ducklings are behaving themselves. Hope too that Mrs Duck has not given you any illusions about you being in charge.

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