what is the world’s most printed book? why, the ikea catalogue, of course. the bible is toast. the reaction most people give me to this fact-et is one of dismay as well of surprise. none of these people are religious. odd. well, i guess you could look at this as being a further indication of the preeminence of the material over the spiritual, the tangible over the intangible. my immediate reaction was that the world is a better place for it. sure nick cave would struggle to make a career out of lyrics based on the catalogue, but we could take that loss.
i’ve been reading some of spinoza’s letters. it’s fascinating how his correspondents just can’t quite get their heads around his non-belief in the christian god. your work seems to make sense, they say, but where does god come into it? poor guy. 340 years ago there was no other paradigm.
here’s to the strange vowels, traffic queues, and the flat-pack chip-board altar-piece.
