It’s all a bit much, really - this life business; its certain uncertainties; death and when it will surprise us, the untimeliness of failure, visits from the in-laws. To add to the confusion there’s a smorgasbord of isms to be for or to be against or to be Switzerland; capitalism, Marxism, passivism, feminism. It’s a cataclysm of isms of who is or who isn’t an -ist. And for a real laugh it all crescendos with the anticlimax of and then he died, at which point your entire existence is a murmured summary of misquotes and badly told anecdotes in passing conversation. (22June11)
