Strangelove and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the work of art by Magister Ludi Stanley Kubrick. With the world coming to an end, what can we do but laugh and be merry…the czar of Russia is crazy and he has access to nuclear weapons – he has reminded us three times, over the past weeks about that appalling aspect – and furthermore, you must not doubt that this fellow is capable of anything, yes, may have been surprised by the war he had started three twenty one days ago, but that is because of Hedonic Adaptation – a phenomenon which means we adapt to almost anything, except for the loss of a dear one, unemployment and very loud noise and we could obviously add war there – and the fact that we tend to forget about the bad news, because they are replaced daily with a new batch of calamities. Laughing with William would help you get over the depressing news of the present, war in Europe (it is a nightmare one feels must end any minute) albeit the mirth of the comedy might be subdued, for there is so much in the background, the subconscious would be anxious about price rises, is the business still going to survive and all of that, but hey, one way to escape the gloom, is through comedy and repeating the Stoic mantras, live in the present, which is the only one that maters (as Tolstoy put it There is only one time that is important – NOW…It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power” and maybe there was the notion that the only important thing is what you do now and the relevant person is the one you have in front of you) and consider the transcendence to come… Just William – William Again by Richmal Crompton, a comedy that you should read for it is from the 1,000 Novels everyone Must Read list.

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