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

But I don't think those frogs will bother to find out this truth, if ever it remains after we have disappeared. If ever we disappear (before the restaurant at the end of the universe).

Typolifi

Have you given any thought to writing an Entry about frogs? I see that the subject is yet to be covered.

JTG

I have given thought to writing several entries, but strange problems always occured.

Such as?

Oooh things like going depressive, or incredibly happy and heedless, or taking part in extravagant adventures involving other countries and weird people, and also a few things about stars and books. The usual routine for an interesting but not so young person in our times. And really it's ok, but it doesn't help me to write entries, though I'm sure writing entries would help me, if you see what I mean.



I plan to write something on the Mabinogion for Nexus Seven after the exams though...

Hmmm... you seem to be in something of a bind. On the one hand, living a life of high adventure is just the sort of thing to inspire some really ripping Entries; but, on the other hand, when's a chap supposed to find the time to write them?

I'll look forward to the thing about Mabinogions, as there are some fairly significant gaps in my understanding of the topic that I am optimistic about filling in... not least, what is a Mabinogion?

JTG

In Tintagel, in the mists of Cornwallis
Arthur Rex was born, when Uther his father
Had pleased the queen Igraine.

Now for ever he's gone, for time a wall is
And from us Past it torns. And legends gather
Until themselves go vain.

But some legends never die
In all books some secret lie


the Mabinogion is a book.


Please note that in my description in post 25, the sentence "The usual routine for an interesting but not so young person in our times" should have been:

The usual routine for an interesting but not so, young person in our times.

Meaning I'm not an old interesting person but a young interesting but not so person...

Ah, I see. That's one thing less I don't know.

'Young' and 'old' mean different things to different people. Young, interesting, and not quite a person seems to me to be a particularly interesting state to be in, especially when there are so many not interesting persons of various ages about.

I don't know if it's better with interesting persons around or with uninteresting persons around. I suppose everyone's interesting, when you come to know the person. I say, of course there are mean people, or only stupid, nevertheless they obviously are interested in themselves, so there must be something interesting in them.



A friend of mine used to say: " to be interested in something is about finding the right position in the surrounding space ". Note that she not only meant it was about finding the right position *spiritually speaking* (e.g. the right attitude, the right perspective), she rather meant "position" in the 3-dimensional space around us. Like looking behind someone, or from beneath...

I'm not sure if she's right, but I have noticed she had the bad habit of being constantly right, especially in that kind of visionary, philosophical issues...
What d'you think?

That certainly proved to be true of our back garden, which became far more interesting after we sank the sitting area 2 feet below the grade of the surrounding flower bed.

In general terms, I think it holds true, too. People who manage to keep a fresh outlook on life generally seem to be the ones with a knack for finding interesting perspectives. Those who are both sane and happy tend to be good at empathy and seeing things from other people's points of view, which amounts to more or less the same thing.