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GURU TONY
Welcome to my weekly magazine post. Watch
it grow thru the week. You can opt to read the essay,
current affairs, themed mini mag with fiction & poetry, or just
read the lot. Here’s hoping you enjoy your visit. Plenty
for everyone here so do call again next week.
MICROFICTION
Fiction: The house was derelict.
Defenceless. ‘We always win in the end,’
said Eco 1. Ecosystems 2 to infinity
crept forward …
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CONSENSUS
I gave up a search for truth long ago when I realized the only truth is
there isn’t one – which led me to search for why people think there is.
And what I noticed is that throughout history a constant flow of ideas
have been put forward. Most fade into obscurity, but the occasional
ones catch on. And when they do, a consensus arises. And before
long, all knowledge – indeed, all thinking – is placed within the confines
of the consensus. Even language bends to its restraints. If we realized
the process, maybe we’d learn to have more toleration for a consensus
that conflicts with ours. In this direction peace may lie.
BROWN
Brown is a difficult colour to write about.
We often think of soil as brown, which
gives it its importance. Brown represents
the foundation for the growth of food,
essential to the neverending cycles of
life, enriched when brown returns to the
earth … I warned you it was a difficult
colour to write about.
Eye On the World
Essays on everything from science
to religion, politics to crime
WORLD NEWS: Many European
banks fail health check, but UK banks
seem okay. This all comes down to the Euro,
I’m sure. To not have control of your own economy
in a crisis is insanity. The Euro was the product of the
stupidity of affluence.
CRIME NEWS: Brit prisons minister thinks rehabilitation should
involve meeting the victim. This worrying aspect is wrong. Crime
may be committed against the person, but the criminal faces the
State. I feel for victims, but emotion should be kept out of law.
WORLD NEWS: The leaking of 1000s of Pentagon documents
outs hypocrisy amongst the media as details of civilian
Afghan deaths are known. What do we expect? It
is war. It’s inevitable. Don’t blame the soldiers.
Blame the politicians who correctly went to
close down the terrorists, and ended
up trying to build empires.
READ WITH MUMMY
The Magazine Post with a gentle hint of horror
One Single Impression
Sunday Scribblings – Friday Flash 55
Three Word Wednesday – Writer’s Island
One Shot Wednesday
CONNOISSEUR
Looking forward to the midnight feast,
With Dracula and Frankinstein and several deceased,
Plenty of red stuff there to drink,
Fleshy meat for our teeth to sink,
True connoisseurs are so very few,
Want to come!!!? Be the wine and stew?
FLASH 55 – HOUSEBREAKERS
Fiction: The house was crumbling fast. No one lived there any more. It
was a harrowing sight – a death. After all, the last resident had lost his
will to exist. And as he was one with the house, maybe it was his
death the house was suffering. For without the living the ghost must
surely fade.
FEARFUL JOURNEY
Travelling fast through the forest of fear,
I can feel my worst nightmares edging near,
Expectantly I wait for them to jump right out,
Any second now, I have no doubt,
Yet soon I was free – I’d gone right through,
Which is when the unexpected came out; said ‘Boo!’
SUCKERS
Fiction: It always happens in the dark. From the moment she was
awoken she was trapped in the mesmeric bond between the two. The
eyes stared into her very soul, and soon the jaws opened, clamped
shut! The drinking began, sucking ravenously. She felt the feebleness
as she began to be drained. She began to predict what course of
action she could take. And eventually, sated, she removed her baby
from her breast.
I’D LIKE TO THANK
I’d like to thank you sincerely,
For all that you have given to me,
Success couldn’t happen without you,
I trust and love you true,
Your wit, your wisdom, your everything,
Is the root of all that makes me zing,
This pact puts so much in my grasp,
Do my horns show in this looking glass?
CRIME NEWS: Brit police officer let
off by CPS over death of Ian Tomlinson
at G20 protest is to face disciplinary hearing.
When is the same going to happen to the police
tacticians. It is an offence in Britain to obstruct a law
abiding person. The police need to remember who they work for.
WORLD NEWS: US Senate hearing on Lockerbie postponed as key
Brits refuse to attend. Let’s not have any indignation here. The only
Americans entitled to be angry are relatives of those who died. The
US Senate needs to realise the UK is not a vassal but a dear
friend who is getting angry.
BRIT NEWS: David Cameron is going round the world upsetting
a lot of countries and aligning with others. India and Turkey
seem to be ‘in’. I’m sure that in gratitude they’ll sign
lots of business contracts. Then again, Britain
was wrong to shun such countries in
favour of the EU in the first place.
© Anthony North, August 2010
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