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Monday, October 27, 2008

Forget Me, Read Brit

Suffering as I am from a degree of blog exhaustion, I am now taking about three weeks off. There may be the odd emission, but nothing regular. In the interim I have handed Thought Experiments over to the erudite and combative poet Brit. Nige may also be involved. Readers will not easily forget Brit's rows with the transhumanists. I was very grateful to him for taking them on, having myself lost the will, as it were, to live. Brit, I am sure, will be a success, but, as I have told him, if not I can always sell what's left of this blog for kindling. Three weeks from now it will probably all we have left to cook and heat our homes. So, for the moment, good night and good luck.

# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 11:05 AM  

9 Comments:

  • At October 27, 2008 11:33 AM, Blogger Brit said…

    Thanks Bryan. Sleep well. I'd better go and find something to write about.

     

  • At October 27, 2008 12:35 PM, Anonymous passer by said…

    Brit, how about a poem to our broke bankers. "brother can you spare a Billion" sort of thing?

     

  • At October 27, 2008 12:41 PM, Blogger Brit said…

    Sounds like a challenge, passer by. Expect a brilliant, but not rapid, response.

     

  • At October 27, 2008 12:55 PM, Blogger James Higham said…

    Join the exodus, Bryan. Many are taking breaks.

     

  • At October 27, 2008 1:40 PM, Blogger Simiain said…

    "I was very grateful to him for taking them on, having myself lost the will, as it were, to live."

    Hah! I laughed, despite myself. You big bunch of humanity hating Misanthropes!

    Might I suggest a new subset of misanthropic transhumanists? We love humanity but bloody well hate humans.

     

  • At October 27, 2008 2:57 PM, Anonymous Susan B. said…

    Brit, you're a POET? That I would not have guessed. Love to see a blog entry in verse.....

     

  • At October 27, 2008 5:38 PM, Blogger Dave Lull said…

    Susan, I enjoyed The Blogger's Lament. You might, too.

     

  • At October 27, 2008 5:55 PM, Blogger Brit said…

    Susan:

    Brit, you're a POET? That I would not have guessed

    Funny, a lot of people say that. Many of them after having read my poems. If you're a glutton for punishment you can follow links via my profile to Think of England, which has further links to the great works themselves.

     

  • At October 27, 2008 7:24 PM, Anonymous Nick Cohen said…

    Thanks for the plug, Bryan. You're not leaving because you're worrying about those black swans are you? They're pesky blighters, I know, and their droppings can mess up the best-kept patio. The thing to do is get a shotgun and blast them out of the sky. Soon as you do, your burdens will lift and you'll return to blogging a new man.

     

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