The Lecturer's Tale

[abu nuwas]

This is quite an appropriate update of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, given the direction culture seems to have gone during recent events. I very much like the way the Speaker is drawn directly into the conclusion, and in contrast to Sonny, quite unashamedly announces his involvement (and uses that wonderfully cliched reason for it as well -- Capitalist bastards! Nothing materialistic about grabbing a 42 inch telly...)

When I am not climbing up the wall with fury, I find there is infinite pathos in people's actions: the shabby little shops they dreamt of getting stuff from, and the cheap and vain articles they pinched.

I was rather lazy with this -- the old pitfall of having the grain of an idea, and then rushing to print!