Monday 28 January 2013

We are going to Die

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.


Sunday 27 January 2013

It is not Wonder

The great wall of China is within the seven wonders of the world because it's the only Chinese product that lasted more than a month.

Time is like a Kebab