Update
Still alive! Yay! Woot. It's good to be alive! (Or, at least, indisputably better than any of the available alternatives.)
Been rereading an old favourite, Catch-22. Being too lazy, blasé and because I don't really care enough to even attempt to provide any original content, I instead quote liberally from it with a vaguely-formed intention that it will substitute nicely for actually writing something.
"The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character."
- J. Heller, "Catch-22"
Happy new year, everybody. 2008's going to be better than 2007.
Been rereading an old favourite, Catch-22. Being too lazy, blasé and because I don't really care enough to even attempt to provide any original content, I instead quote liberally from it with a vaguely-formed intention that it will substitute nicely for actually writing something.
"The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character."
- J. Heller, "Catch-22"
Happy new year, everybody. 2008's going to be better than 2007.