Makes Life Worthwhile (COR)

And now I know what HATE is - absolute
unadulterated hate, driving in peak traffic
with a headache trying to reverse into a
small space after many years not doing it

Discovering I can’t find reverse gear at all,
when driving off the road is blocked, make
a U-turn on the spot, with taxis everywhere
I break every traffic rule without remorse

Winning their respect by doing as they do
till ending up behind the ultimate fool who
stops dead when we should have crossed
the robot; bitter hate welling up making me

Send red-hot rays against myself; not him
because every feeling I ever have fills my
own self; resting afterwards love returned
enveloping me - yes, ‘tis love alone that

Makes the world go round, hatred being
just a means to lose everything
that makes life worthwhile...

Love Yourself

The only thing that matters is whether you believe
your actions are APPROPRIATE, nothing is more
damaging to your psyche than doing things which
are wrong according to your own moral code, does
not matter how the code evolved - religion or your
own thought, it only matters whether you can feel
proud of yourself and develop self-esteem

Based on your image in your own eyes; if you keep
on breaking laws in which you believe, your life will
be miserable and you'll find no sense in existence-
or in being loved because you do not love yourself,
without this starting point you feel disgust for every-
thing you touch - so beware those who fall in love
with you - you will show them just how little

You value yourself by lack of respect for them; their
very love will make them despicable in your eyes; so
be true to your own ideals lest you start to hate every-
thing your five senses bring into your  life…

Without Memorable Quotes – 2 [REVISED]

Never A Moment To Breathe

Dear Michelle, thank you kindly for lending me
“Raising Steam” it’s so lovely seeing Moist Von
Lipwig married to Adora Belle who is running her
own clacks company while he has to charm the
rich into accepting this new steam technology

That Vetinari became the most secretive stoker of
all time - and planted a substitute in his office - is a
most unexpected twist; that Drumknott becomes a
steam locomotive aficionado is yet another thrill,
“Surprised Reader the Stupefied am I”

It’s all pure fairytale with everything working out
perfectly and all living happily ever after, though
I miss Pratchett’s buoyant comic philosophising
which I treasured in previous books; was Terry
so excited by his theme he’d no time to stop,

Extrapolate into the magic of quantum theory?
The story ran on like an unstoppable locomotive
in inevitable motion - no moment to breathe or
take stock of Disc World reality; one wondrous
symphony of exciting, perfect denouement

It’s amazing and overpowering - I appreciate your
kind gesture so much, wishing you a lovely day
in Merryhell - if it be possible, of course

A Secret Held [REVISED]

Life can only become interesting by living in my own
world - a bubble in reality where my wishes become
commands promptly executed by my thoughts when
following rules as explained by Abraham - that  non-
physical spirit channelled by Esther Hicks - I walked
sedately out of the office to march in a troupe of

Drum majorettes, all within my head, down the street
to German iPod music playing in my ears - yodelling,
feeling the world change into the Swiss Alps where I
wear festive local costume & become Julie Andrews
singing in the Sound Of Music - all without anybody
being any the wiser on seeing me

Nobody knew though my body was here, actually I
was surrounded by the mountainous beauty of my
dreams, marching with my Fedora denoting typical
Swiss headgear, a feather in my headband; floating
down to earth when I returned to my desk to finish
checking the book list, my day around the world a

secret held within happy images living in my head!

Elections Looming [REVISED]

Doomsday-time scenarios - elections looming,
end-of-life-as-we-know-it prophecies lead the
electorate to contemplate the dark landscape -
should we not vote at all or for the wrong party,
the rich should be so ashamed they’d pay one-
off tax ransoms to uplift the poor, schools, jobs

And service delivery while government gets in
first, money to finish Nkandlagate then victory
to celebrate, the rest might be used - possibly
by committees to only sit for fifteen years, well,
if we’re lucky - to deliberate improving plans to
educate the very poor - and then a few cents

Might be given them - if the committees feel
magnanimous, you can never tell and cynical
minds only debilitate whatever good might’ve
come from it, and the State to confiscate half
of all the farms and prescribe minimum wage
requiring every man who offers employment

To pay them all bankrupting sums, the goose
laying golden eggs is in wrong hands so lets
kill it, eat its entrails as that’ll show investors
overseas what we think; without golden eggs
we’ll simply drift in the happy way Africa was
meant to be - a rich king with subjects living

In abject poverty where they’ll hold him in high
esteem while bowing to his will and in this way
everyone will share equally; hooray for election
day, for having nightmares of general strikes &
the country sliding down the drain in the wake
of the energising, electrifying Nkandlagate

[Election time in South Africa 2014]

Salvation [REVISED]

The hostess who blithely claimed she never
prepared dishes - offered pizza bought en
masse for her guests; she never cooks, the

Domestic does it twice a week, that’s it, and
since making coffee or tea is anathema fruit
juice, soda and beer were on offer, I ate

Pizza knowing I’d pay afterwards; one o’clock
on Saturday the sky dropped on my head after
shopping, headache, fatigue forcing me to

Bed, woke two hours later to a meal of whole-
wheat rusks and a strange miracle took place
again: this wonder-food made me feel so well

I washed dishes and cleaned the kitchen; all
other wheat dishes cause narcolepsy yet this
one is more beneficial than other foodstuffs

Oats put me to sleep, breakfast cereals cause
pain, experiments with maize products proved
disastrous; only these whole-wheat rusks can

Work this miracle - delighted and surprised I
think it's heaven to find salvation in such a
comforting, marvellous thing!

Without Memorable Quotes [REVISED]

Terry Pratchett may have evolved the theme of
Raising Steam, possibly, but this book doesn’t
seem to have been written by him - the outline
story is everything while the dialogue does not
sound like Pratchett’s characters at all

Humour and reflective consideration about the
meaning of life is completely lacking - Vetinari
is all wrong with a completely out-of-character
Drumknott - Moist Von Lipwig sounds a one-
dimensional pre-determined fairytale hero

Dick Simnel is everyman - as is everyone else,
the steam locomotive is a protagonist yet just
killing one assailant relegates her to being part
of the background - and thus without the usual
philosophising it is fast adventure less any

Memorable quotes to treasure; I’ll return to the
original Discworld books for the special magic
which will live forever!