It’s nice to know

Yeap – having people you can really trust is an excellent thing.

Too bad there aren’t any in the near vicinity.

Top 10 questions

… of the immediate past (that’s the last few days):

1. How is your lecture so intimately tied to the film screening that, when technology fails and the film cannot be shown, the lecture must also be entirely binned along with it?

2. Why didn’t I listen to the whole of Automatic for the People a lot sooner?

3. What happens when free will isn’t predicated on the need to preserve rectitude of will for the sake of that rectitude, because that’s the way God (/His substitute) sets us up?

4. Is evolution really so clever?

5. Am I turning into a Christian?

6. What the fuck does ‘haptic’ mean?

7. Do I need to review my, admittedly fairly vague, timeline for having children, a married life, a home?

8. How soon is too soon  to get my ass over to Switzerland, where I can stay in Zurich for free rent (well, for donations toward food and expenses) with my brother as a base for wider European travels?

9. Just how bad a writer am I?

10. Why am I so distrusting and what should I do about that, if anything?

A limited number of answers:

1. Well, I guess the lecture would have only been a basic paraphrasing of the set readings anyway, as the other lectures have so far been.

3. See Anselm of Canterbury’s text on Free Will. I’ve been reading this at night, after long days, on the verge of the abyss, so it’s been a struggle to absorb and I feel I’ve misunderstood plenty of it.

5. Hell no.

6. Turns out it means ‘relating to the sense of touch’. That is, a synonym for ‘tactile’.

9. “You are such a terrible writer, I find myself reading you at work.” – Max Mansell

Note: ongoing edits will be made as any further answers come to light.