Todays Dispatch is entitled Vogons, Palimpsests and the Gap-Part I. (part 11 next week)
Greetings you long suffering wedding guests,
In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Vogons demolish planet Earth in order to build a by-pass for an Intergalactic Highway. ‘Jobs and Growth’ would have been their motto when embarking on this visionary enterprise.
Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein could have avoided a great deal of angst if only they’d paid more attention to Douglas Adams’ masterpiece, in which the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is revealed to be the number 42.
Monty python the universe song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq4uCWtQE24
Is the biocide of the Great Barrier Reef in order to excavate the biggest coal mine on Earth a dress rehearsal for the ultimate destruction of the planet?
In order to build what?
Under the mottos: ‘Closing the Gap’ and ‘making communities safer’, in the Northern Territory of Australia, a way of life, a way of being, a way of seeing the Universe, a social fabric is being unravelled in order to build a third Gaol, and several state of the art multi-million dollar police ‘complexes’.
Vogons aren’t confined to pages in a book of fiction.
So long and thanks for all the fish
Frank
Irish Blessing – May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: