17 November 2004
back to the exercise books...
Cheers for all the commiserations, especially the ever-welcome Namenlos (and when will we see you and your beautiful wife again?). The robbery did indeed prevent me from corrupting my 16-year-old religious studies kids with slanderous claims about faith being linked to certain chemico-genetic predispositions - because the police didn't turn up in time for me to go and teach (well, the college is two hours away). Perhaps my tagline: 'it's either God, or reason, or nothing' might need to be whittled down to: 'Ok, it's just fucking God, you sadistic bastard! HAPPY NOW?!'
Anyway, it's not all bad news, as I have quite happily returned to my old methods: one book of academically-detested Marxist theory, one pen, one notebook and several hours in the British Library.
Have also been reading Marx's 'The Holy Family', which is just one of the most relentlessly funny pieces of satire I've ever read, e.g. 'For abstraction, love is "the maid from a foreign land" who has no dialectical passport and is therefore expelled from the country by the Critical police.'
Incidentally (coincidentally..), I'm going to the opening night of the ICA's 100 Artists See God tomorrow - should we prepare ourselves for a kultur-wide theological turn? Let's hope it's a Gnostic one this time, I do so like to learn new things.
Anyway, it's not all bad news, as I have quite happily returned to my old methods: one book of academically-detested Marxist theory, one pen, one notebook and several hours in the British Library.
Have also been reading Marx's 'The Holy Family', which is just one of the most relentlessly funny pieces of satire I've ever read, e.g. 'For abstraction, love is "the maid from a foreign land" who has no dialectical passport and is therefore expelled from the country by the Critical police.'
Incidentally (coincidentally..), I'm going to the opening night of the ICA's 100 Artists See God tomorrow - should we prepare ourselves for a kultur-wide theological turn? Let's hope it's a Gnostic one this time, I do so like to learn new things.
