Saturday, 1 January 2011

Happy New Year

My New Year resolution is prompted by watching Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, from the Devil's grand-daughter Susan reading "Jack and the Beanstalk" to the children.

"And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy any more.

But he got away with it and lived happily ever after without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done. Which proves that you can be excused just about anything if you're a hero, because no-one asks inconvenient questions".

In my naive way, I shall endeavour to keep asking such questions, especially if the hero is an ecological terrorist.

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