With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
July 10, 2003 - 11:59 p.m.
I actual remember some of the things I want to write about. Let’s see if I forget them before I get to write them down. You can wager on this if you want.
I wimped out this morning and didn’t go see Jimmy Dale Gilmore. I would have had to leave as soon as I got up and then taken a bus and subway which would take forever or the LIRR which is expensive to make the Noon show early enough to get a good seat or place to stand. Instead I did a few errands in the neighborhood. I had to get tickets to people and used three different methods. I just left them in Bad Carey’s mailbox, I used UPS to get them to Good Carey and Neal, and the U.S. Mail to get them to Gella. I’d say let’s race but Bad Carey won already.
I also once again had to help my mother’s friend with the computer. Her printer printed two copies of everything. I had no idea how to fix it so I just deleted the printer and reinstalled it. I figured that would work and I was right. It’s is amazing what you can learn but just trying stuff and having a basic understanding of what’s going on. It is also amazing how unnatural it can all seem to people who grew up without computers.
Tonight I went to the Met game. I saved money and took the bus and subway instead of the LIRR. It takes only a little more time so it is worth it when I don’t have a monthly. It is even easier after the game, I don’t have to run to make the train or wait around for it. The Mets lost of course and I tied in my game with Alan. My mother gets upset when the lose. It really doesn’t affect me. I know they aren’t going anywhere. I sort of wish it did bother me. I was telling Alan tonight that for the first ten years or so that I went to games I came home from every game with my voice hoarse. I would shout and scream all game. Now I hardly ever do. I miss that passion.
Now for the things I needed to remember.
Maureen Dowd wrote in a column in the Times about ADD. She said that TV characters had in and singled out Wile E. Coyote. That really bothered me. He is the antithesis of ADD. He is the most focused creature in existence. His problem is obsession. He never things about anything but the roadrunner. He doesn’t once think about chasing a jack rabbit. He doesn’t even chase a different roadrunner. No he has but a single goal in life. Captain Ahab was a slacker compared to Wile E. Coyote.
I heard a review of The League of Extraordinary Gentleman tonight. I’m not sure if I’m going to see it but I was happy to hear that one of the characters is Allan Quatermain. I’m a big fan of H. Rider Haggard and I’m glad to see Sean Connery playing his now neglected hero. Have any of you ever read King Solomon’s Mines or She? Let me know if you have. Despite that I realized that Allan would never be the leader of the league. There is only one man that the British government would trust to save the world at the end of the 19th century. Especially as his brother in many ways was the British Government. Do you know who I mean? If I gave you his address you’d know, 221B Baker Street. Yes that’s right, Sherlock Holmes. I just checked and saw that the writer’s of the film did not forget him, Mycroft Holmes is in it. Now I might have to see the film just to find out why Sherlock isn’t in it.
I love Sherlock Holmes, and I’m on the only one. Along with Tarzan he is the literary hero that has been portrayed the most time in film and is always one of the most recognizable. I was thinking of Holmes earlier today because I noticed that the online version of the times has archived Obituaries of people near the anniversary of their deaths and Doyle died on July 7, 1930. Doyle never appreciated Holmes, he thought he should be remembered for his books on spiritualism. He was wrong, Holmes was a masterpiece. Most heroes are known for their physical skills, not Holmes. He was a thinker. Yes he could fight if he had to, he was an expert with sword, gun, or fists. But he always fought with scientific skill, not with brute strength. Above all he was a thinker. He prevailed because he was rational and the world for the most part is not. He’d let us lesser mortals in on his secrets such as “When the impossible is eliminated, whatever is left no matter how improbable must be the truth.” I read other mysteries to outguess the detective and find out whodunit before he or she does. Holmes I just watch to see how he’ll do it. I know he’s the man I’d want leading the fight to save the world.
OK I remembered both things I was trying to remember. Those who bet against me pay up to those who had faith.
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