Reading Logs:Finished And Now on Radio 4 by Simon Elmes
Started Annie's Box by Randal Keynes
So many things today. I forgot to mention this list of various versions of the tube map, along the lines of the masterful Great Bear by Simon Patterson. Some are rude so be warned.
As you can see, I finished And Now on Radio 4 which continuously filled my head with the notable voices of radio greats alive and dead - Brian Redhead, Alistair Cooke, John Peel and of course the current lead voice of Charlotte Green up there. The book jumps between programmes at such a rate that the procession of internal voices was beginning to become a bit spooky.
And now something I have been meaning to mention here for some time, the Classification of Animals by Jorge Luis Borges. It first cropped up in one of Steven Pinker's books but it is far funnier than his academic perspective suggests. I especially like "those that from a long way off look like flies." It just seems that this is the way things work in the real world in defiance of all human attempts to regiment our interactions.
Anyway, my attempt at a similar list. I will leave it to you to decide to what it applies.
1. those which everyone knows will fail.
2. ones that finish costing double the estimate.
3. unclassifiable.
4. those possessing an internal, logical inconsistency.
5. those that don't.
6. ones which start by being drawn on a napkin.
7. any having the word "Norwegian" in the title.
8. ones you may have heard about but which do not really exist.
9. all starting between October and November (not inclusive).
10. those with a budget of infinity.
11. ones where the due date is a "division by zero" error.
12. moist ones.
13. government regulated and therefore perfect.
14. those which when fully defined resemble Scrabble Boards.
There - quite proud of that.
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