h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It has been a bonny day. I walked down to the Uni, but Caius was away. I had a haircut, and bought a copy of High Rise for £2 from the Old Aberdeen Bookshop. High Rise is a favourite JGB of mine. I said hello to a bonny cat in Old Aiberdeen, which sat still for a photo. I went to the Morrisons and bought wine and pasta and rolls for Susan's Saturday sandwiches. I had a Belgian Chocolate ice cream cone from Casa di Gelati.

I see that Joanne Russo is dead. Reading the obits, it strikes me that I should try to lay hands on some of her books.

Pasta for tea. I have a film lined up for Susan - Angus, Thongs &c. We will also watch the latest Twenty-Twelve - the series is ver' funny. In episode 5, which we watched last night, the actress whi played Mary Bennett in the Frith/Ehle P&P turned up, and it was a delight to see her.

High Rise is in many ways identikit Ballard; but, then again, what JGB wasn't? It reminds me of an early Cronenberg - Shivers.

Hmmm... JGB = JG Ballard, but also Jerry Garcia Band. I like both. Jerry was far better in the JGB than he ever was in the GD.

I borrowed a C.19th shipping law text from the Law Library. I am going to get a staff ID card for myself. Susan has had get Glasgow date confirmed - 30th June, et seq.

The ice cream was ver' good.

Miah is having a ball.

Katge Bush album out on Monday. I am teaching on Monday, and have to meet my mother in town on Tuesday, so I will buy it then.

Kate Bush; great artist, respec', unique and original talent &c &c, but that 80s Fairlight sound addiction... did her no good whatsoever, and to still be standing by it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV25-V1cYN4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEVMfG8z490

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWerEMPl0Vg&playnext=1&list=PL012E05465ECF1CC3


Douglas

So one is writing something on the shared ownership of land, and a niggly point in an old old case takes you into the law of ships. The law of ships is interesting because it is more international than law generally tends to be, by which I mean that by the C.19th British shipping law and US shipping law and a fair deal of European shipping law are ver' similar - and note, by the way, that 'BRITISH', because by the C.19th we had a British law of shipping. This means that you can pick up a mid-C.19th London-published barrister/QC-authored text on shipping and find cited Stair and Erskine, and Grotius and Puffendorf, and Pothier &c &c, which is quite remarkable for something that would generally be catalogued as an 'English' AKA common law text.

Mercantile law is the beginning of international law.

Anyhow, I have too too long been floundering amongst C.19th Westmister shipping law statutes and law books from the same period. All very bewildering, and I have come to realise that the dawn of understanding is when you start to work out what are the right questions... It's all about identifying the right questions - even if unanswered, questions allow one to construct structures. Actually, I have long since known this, but this week have been reminded.


Douglas

< Kate Bush; great artist, respec', unique and original talent &c &c >

We had lunch the other day with a dance teacher who has taught KB, not much of a claim to fame but I don't know many people who know people...