Modern Conditions
As I have had no energy to work on the two pieces of groundbreaking research I’m supposed to be producing (insert the terse and hollow laughter of the damned here), I’ve been pondering things such as:
- Can there be any more hideous description of a text than calling it “a spiritual memoir”?
- Does the New York Times “most emailed articles”-list tell us something about the state of the world, and is this enough to convince a thinking person that Ra’s al Ghul was onto something?
- In this day an age, would surreptitiously cutting off someone’s incoming email, so that they’d just think no-one was mailing, be enough to trigger full-blown paranoia (I’ve only received around 30 mails today, which is a bit odd.)?
