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

From Wazungu/LessScarySewerMonster
You are right, I am not being much of a monster any more. I want to give straight answers too much of the time. I haven't really got the hang of this two personalities thing. So I'd like to move our conversation here if you don't mind. Its also because I don't log on as LSSM so often.

I am picturing the monster playing clarinet as I write. or Scottish country dancing.

Italy sounds good, whereabouts? The Hebrides can be a bit cool and wet. But at this time of year not cold. They are beautiful. The colours unbelievable. Every shade of blue green sea, white beaches, very few people around, very few buildings. Fields full of flowers, lots of birds, waders, on the beaches, sometimes sea otters.

You're right about fossils. I just like finding something that was alive millions of years ago. Especially when you split open a piece of slate and there's a fossilised outline of a little animal or leaf that hasn't been seen for all those millions of years.

What you said about Arthur is interesting, I hadn't thought of it. An important part of the book is the search for the Holy Grail, the chalice Christ drank from, yet as you say, there's very little connection with Christianity as we know it other than that. Maybe it reflects what you might call a superstitious type of Christianity. Arthur and his Knights probably wouldn't read a bible for themselves. They relied on priests to interpret and guide them. These priests may have tended to "mystify" things as a way of keeping their own positions of power. The Christianity we know today is basically straight forward, at least in what it expects of mankind. Does that make any sense?

I'm not a Tina Turner fan, a friend of mine is. But she is a fantastic performer on stage and I did enjoy the concert very much.