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Tuesday, July 27, 2004

That rattling sound in the engine

Ethically deficient, any “good” action by myself has been shaped by my earliest reading experience with Beano comics. The rules in this universe are as such:

  1. Good actions shall be unimposing or unwitting
  2. They will be followed by “Zoiks! A fiver!”
  3. Followed by either a large serving of bangers and mash, a large serving of fish and chips, or a large pie with horns coming out of it. (The last may be the Dandy outcome).


This windfall approach applies in cooking:

  • In-season fruit and vegetables are best and are at their cheapest.
  • Animals ranged freely and killed humanely taste better.
  • A diverse diet is interesting and better for you.


Anyway this is a hideously roundabout way of suggesting that there may be fewer such windfalls in the real world but Robert Corr of Kick & Scream's Time for action on Sudan compels "doing" and "something".

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think you're off the rails.

Mark
http://twistedhamster.net/

7/27/2004 06:56:00 pm

 
Blogger Anthony said...

Well coming from Tokyo to a car-centric city like Perth, you'd think so.

7/27/2004 10:35:00 pm

 
Blogger Anthony said...

BTW regarding anti-heroes, if you can track down a copy of "Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life" and have a look at the piece on "Moral Saints" by Susan Wolf.

7/28/2004 02:26:00 pm

 
Blogger Anthony said...

BTW regarding anti-heroes, if you can track down a copy of "Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life" and have a look at the piece on "Moral Saints" by Susan Wolf.

7/28/2004 02:27:00 pm

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Beano comics are the greatest form of literature known to man. Look at http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/comicinformationpages/beanopages/beanohomepage.asp or http://www.beanotown.com/ for information. Beano also contains the original Dennis the Menace cartoons - not your American version.

7/30/2004 11:38:00 am

 
Blogger Anthony said...

Thanks anonymous.

British Dennis the Menace has an anarchic core of pure thuggish malevolence. For him there is no redemption, only punishment.

7/30/2004 02:17:00 pm

 

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