Pynchon

I had a dream last night about my foxy neighbour Keren.

"Did you, John?"

No, she wouldn't let me.

Ha ha ha ha ha! The old ones are the best.

Actually, last night I really did have a dream about Keren. I was standing with her in her hallway. We were looking at her front door. It was raining, the door was shut, but water was cascading down the door like a waterfall and was spreading across her hallway.

I said to her, "That's kind of beautiful" and she said, "It's not supposed to be doing that, you idiot!" and then I woke up in a cold sweat.

Analysis? I don't know. On and off I have dreams about water leaks. It dates back to August 2002 when we came back from holiday to find that the cold water tank had sprung a leak and that water had been dripping through the kitchen ceiling. We were lucky. The leak must have only been going a couple of hours by the time we got home. My Brother had been looking after the house and he was adamant that nothing had been wrong while he was there. We claimed for the leak on the insurance, got it fixed and got a redecorated kitchen thrown in. Nice.

I still look at that kitchen ceiling every time I enter that room. It's habit. That memory will be with me for the rest of my life.

Shudder.

There was a story in the Independent about Macca and Heather Mills. Maybe Heather Mills is a gold digger? Maybe she isn't? Maybe Heather Mills really loved Macca? Maybe she didn't? Maybe Heather Mills is a predatory female, who lucked out by snaring the richest pop star in the world? Maybe she isn't? Maybe she was a hooker? Maybe she wasn't?

Just because she appeared in pornography (were those pictures of her?) doesn't necessarily make her a bad person, it just makes her a person willing to appear in pornography. There are worse things.

A bit of dialogue from this evening.

Lorraine: "They (Macca and Heather) were never going to stay together."

Moi: "Why?"

Lorraine: "Because he didn't love her."

Moi: "And how have you worked that out?"

Lorraine: "Because, stupid, he has never written a classic song about her!"

Hmm.... Macca wrote "And I Love Her" and "Here, There and Everywhere" about Jane Asher, and "My Love" about Linda. I think those are all classic songs. Lorraine made a good point, except that Paul McCartney doesn't really write any classic songs anymore.

Jane Asher left Macca in 1968, allegedly because she surprised him entertaining a lady when she arrived home early one day. If that hadn't have happened, maybe they would have been together forever?

And so endeth today's lesson in writing just for the sake of it.

Nothing happened today except for the terrorism thing. If they havew stopped something bad from happening by clamping down on airport security, then good for them, but I remember the bit in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9-11" in which somebody talked about using the raising and lowering of the US terrorism threat index as a method of unsettling the public. I pointed out to somebody today that martial law could be declared in the UK at any time and all they would need to do would be to claim that they were responding to a major terrorist threat, and that they would be allowed to get away with it.

Now that is worrying.