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/ 9 September 2008
Leonie Joubert to lucifer: You make it easier for us to live with ourselves. It’s easier to hold that an external agency paved the way for us.
What makes a woman attractive is how feminine her face looks — and that’s probably linked to fertility.
The so-called ”consensus” view (the mainstream view that climate change is being caused by humans) is not reached by democratic decision-making.
I have decided to become a fairaeologist — one who studies fairies. I believe I see fairies. I’m sure they exist.
History probably does have a bit of a musty public persona — seemingly crusty, tweed-clad and whiffing faintly of mothballs.
The museum — small, intimate and in the very spot where it all took place — remembers the man, the remarkable history of heart transplant surgery.
How different things might have been if the past few hundred years of history had hoisted women into society’s top earners and power-mongers.
Can we blame our modern ills on the fact that we’ve abandoned some or other god? Surely not?
I wake with a snort, roused by the clatter of a ballpoint pen hitting the floor. It spins idly to a halt, put there by the same peaches-and-cream striped paw now tapping one end of it. How easily the modern quill is reduced to a plaything! Blink, blink, blink. The cursor on my computer screen winks expectantly. Above it, the line: To breed or not to breed … Blink, blink, blink.
According to an arcane superstition pre-dating the Enlightenment, I can be a bitch at times. We all can, now and then, but my predisposition was determined by the position of our sun in relation to a specific arrangement of celestial bodies a few hundred light years away, at the time of my birth.