Metaphysical Speculation Is About As Pointless As

Crime Fiction Confirms Our Belief, Despite Some Evidence To The Contrary, That We Live In A Rational, Comprehensible, And Moral Universe.

Early This Morning, 1 January 2021, Three Minutes After Midnight, The Last Human Being To Be Born On Earth Was Killed In A Pub Brawl In A Suburb Of Buenos Aires, Aged Twenty-five Years, Two Months And Twelve Days.

The World Is Full Of People Who Have Lost Faith: Politicians Who Have Lost Faith In Politics, Social Workers Who Have Lost Faith In Social Work, Schoolteachers Who Have Lost Faith In Teaching And, For All I Know, Policemen Who Have Lost Faith In Policing And Poets Who Have Lost Faith In Poetry. It's A Condition Of Faith That It Gets Lost From Time To Time, Or At Least Mislaid.

It's Easy To Get A Reputation For Wisdom. It's Only Necessary To Live Long, Speak Little And Do Less.

Old Age Makes Caricatures Of Us All.