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

I can feel time passing because it creates a vortex in the hole in my head, and the rawness of time's passage hurts my brain in an unpleasant way and I feel a headlong rush into a paying of the telephone bill, the car tax disc, the municipality, I cannot stand time as it brings trouble and pushes hope farther away; time makes my heart sick.

The vortex in the hole against my brain also makes me sick to my stomach, and to the guts, which feel bruised by dirties and squalling and screaming like a frightened child. Oh poor guts, poor stomach, to have to scream like a scared child, and hopelessly weep aloud, and woe.

Jon and Sean are SO funny in the morning.

I can no more. I can

Beckett in Hopkins. Hopkins is an amazing poet.

I think the Internet did more than anything else to teach me how to use words to their best effect. And only that work which I knew was read, helped me to develop.

Carrion Comfort - Gerard Manley Hopkins

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man
In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me

Thy wring-world right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan
With darksome devouring eyes my bruised bones? and fan,
O in turns of tempest, me heaped there; me frantic to avoid thee and flee?

Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear.
Nay in all that toil, that coil, since (seems) I kissed the rod,
Hand rather, my heart lo! lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, cheer.
Cheer whom though? the hero whose heaven-handling flung me, foot trod
Me? or me that fought him? O which one? is it each one? That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

The first time I've ever watched ad advert on YouTube without skipping it - Capitec Bank's Skydiver ad. WELL DONE CAPITEC! I can feel a letter to Head Office coming on.

My broadband has failed, so I'm using my dongle. Which is SO MUCH faster than the broadband! I'm going to have to go to Telkom and MWEB and get my broadband increased to the higher speeds available at the local exchange. This dongle's performance is incredible. Let's hope it doesn't run out soon.