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Happy Christmas
Darryl Plecas’s Rose-coloured Mirror.
‘If I’m guilty of anything, it’s changing my mind,’
What a banal way to make an action that calls to mind words such as renege, weasel, forsake, apostatise – sound almost noble.
Before we rush to knight Speaker Plecas for gallantry let us consider a few facts.
Me and My Car: The Saga Continues – May 2017
It’s rather self-evident that the Universe permits me to have a car only in order to ensure it has a handy tool with which to torment and drive me crazy.
Managing to survive and successfully deal with whatever the latest challenge thrown my way by my car brings no sense of accomplishment or relief,it simply marks the start of the countdown to the arrival of the next potential disaster.
For the Universe it does not matter how many times it fails since it only needs to win once. Having been stripped to the bone, I have been left with no cushion and so cannot afford to fail even once.
Which makes the car a most effective tool to torment and drive me into retreating from the world.
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