About him
'There is a difference between what a man says and thinks of himself, and what he is and does,' Marx.
Testimonials...
'You disgust me,' ex-wife; catching me cheating - at chess.
'You dumb monkey; U will definitely B killing yourself; and we B dying,' an 'illegal' labourer from the Indian sub-continent witnessing me using a jackhammer.
'Do you actually believe the crap you're spouting?', a wicca/apostate psychiatrist high on mushrooms at an illegal forest rave.
Answer: Indubitably.
"You're a fatalist and insane!", online dater.
Cultural pursuits...
Books: Asterix the Gaul.
Films: Hollywood.
Music: Anything; tone deaf.
Theatre: Cheap seats.
Museums: If there is a free bar.
'Art': Human aesthetic hubris can't compare with nature's protean sublime magnificence.
Miscellaneous self-aggrandising...
Lifestyle: A halcyon youth spent running on dirty chemicals - chasing the night time back into the day - exchanged for a rueful middle-aged serenity; punctuated by occasional bouts of irrational optimism fuelled by organic red wine.
Food: Concocting inedible curries; wonky chapatis; sticky-pan rice; fiery passata; burnt chocolate.
Travelling: Escapades in North/South America; Europe, Caribbean; Middle East, and SE Asia, veered between serendipitous joy and survival.
Pets: I have a cactus - but we are no longer on speaking terms.
Job: Over 25 years of indentured salary-slavery at the same - moderately - evil media firm. It's not a vocation, merely a banausic endeavour to service mortgage/bills, and enjoy debauched epicurean lifestyle: a cinema subscription.
Politics: 'A conspiracy theory is just something the government doesn't want you to hear; and doesn't want you to think about,' (RFK JR).
Ambition: Be less humble; more judgmental.
Hobbies: Shopping; creating shopping lists; worrying if I do enough shopping.
Religion: A misanthropic desire for eternal non-being is balanced against the 1st Law of Thermodynamics. So, I hope to be reincarnated as a cloud - or a chat show host.
About his ideal match
SEX: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent,” Wittgenstein.
No nymphomaniacs please: far too physiologically and psychologically enervating.
LOVE: ‘It is the stupidest, the most barbaric of all human passions...There is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than love,’ Woolf.
MONEY: 'Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery,” (Dickens).
I'm disgustingly wealthy; annual income of £20; expenditure of 1p.
KIDS: “Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis).
Only through birth,
does death live perennially.
Bedevilling parent and child;
in axiomatic cruelty.
A Sisyphean suffering;
of shitting; eating and making coin.
What a wonderful gift of joy!
KIND: 'There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice,' Nietzsche.
Everything from the batteries in our magic black boxes to our clothes, feeds off the vitality of humans; creatures and the planet.
Human imperatives are those of nature; forces
of attraction/repulsion. These diabolical cosmic synergies swirl inside our synapses which are entangled with this universal preternatural dialectical energy.
As individuals, our thoughts and actions, are shaped by the light/darkness permeating all reality; we are but creatures of Shadow; everyone kind/cruel.
HONEST: '“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters,' Einstein.
People are inveterate liars, according to psychologists; but they and/or their study respondents could be disingenuous about lying.
Even if you are a freakish paragon of truth, your senses are not so veracious. Cognitive intuitions of empirical appearances are disingenuous - much to the chagrin of physicists.
Kindness; honesty, are not pre-requisites (or morally feasible) but financial solvency, however, most certainly is.
Also, a willingness to tolerate and contradict me.
