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Tuesday August 26th, 2003Tuesday August 26th, 2003: TV World News If it ever get's off the ground 'the BBC Creative Archive' could be the best thing to hit the internet for a long time. Quite how on Earth they plan to fund the bandwidth required by such a project I do not know -- as long as they don't plan on sticking another £50 on the license fee. Today is an important day in Iraq -- the number of American deaths since the 'end of major combat operations' on 1 May has surpassed the number killed during the war - 139 compared to 138. My colleagues, and even myself, mumbling coyly by our couches, all asserted that my problem was absolutely normal: I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis. The assumption is that a limited and bored self is the unavoidable, all-embracing norm. And i was beginning to agree until, after a few months of wallowing in depression (I furtively purchased a .38 revolver and nine cartridges), I came washing up on the shore of Zen. - Luke Rhinehart ( |
