About him
'There is a difference between what a man says and thinks of himself, and what he is and does,' Marx.
Testimonials...
'You disgust me,' ex-wife; catching me cheating - at chess.
'You dumb monkey; U will definitely B killing yourself; and we B dying,' an 'illegal' labourer from the Indian sub-continent witnessing me using a jackhammer.
'Do you actually believe the crap you're spouting?', a wicca/apostate psychiatrist high on mushrooms at an illegal forest rave.
Answer: Indubitably.
"You're a fatalist and insane!", online dater.
Cultural pursuits...
Books: With pictures.
Films: Hollywood.
Music: LOUD!
Theatre: Cheap seats.
Museums: If there is a free bar.
'Art': Its aesthetic hubris can't compare with the sky protean sublime magnificence.
Miscellaneous self-aggrandising...
Lifestyle: A halcyon youth running on dirty fuel; chasing night/day; recursively for highs/lows; exchanged for a rueful appreciation of serenity; punctuated by regular hungover yoga.
Food: Concocting inedible curries; wonky chapatis; sticky pan rice; fiery passata; burnt chocolate.
Travelling: Escapades in North/South America; Europe, Caribbean; Middle East, and SE Asia, veered between serendipitous joy and survival.
Pets: And they offer what, humans don't? I have a cactus - but we don't get on.
Job: Indentured servitude at the same evil media/PR firm since I graduated over 25 yrs ago. Work provides modicum of intrinsic satisfaction - free coffee; nice pension - but, alas, it's not a vocation. Merely a banausic endeavour to service mortgage/bills, and enjoy a epicurean lifestyle.
Politics: 'A conspiracy theory is just something the government doesn't want you to hear; and doesn't want you to think about,' (RFK JR).
Ambition: Be less humble; more irascibly judgmental.
Hobbies: Shopping; queuing up shopping; online shopping; creating shopping lists; watching adverts enticing shopping; wondering if I do enough shopping.
Religion: Eternal Misanthropy; I hope to be reincarnated as a cloud - or a chat show host.
About his ideal match
SEX: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent,” Wittgenstein.
No nymphomaniacs; too physiologically and psychologically enervating.
LOVE: ‘It is the stupidest, the most barbaric of all human passions...There is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than love,’ Woolf.
MONEY: 'Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery,” (Dickens).
I'm disgustingly wealthy; annual income of £20; expenditure of 1p.
KIDS: “Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis)
Only through birth,
does death live.
Escaping its infirmity,
bedevilling parent and child,
an unknown mercy.
But earning coin,
a Sisyphean suffering,
an axiomatic cruelty.
Consuming and defecating;
the wonderful 'gift' of life...
KIND: 'There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice,' Nietzsche.
Everything from clothes to phones we covet/fetish, feeds off the vitality of humans; creatures and the planet.
Human imperatives are those of nature; forces
of attraction/repulsion. These diabolical cosmic synergies swirl inside our synapses which are entangled with this universal preternatural dialectical energy.
As individuals, our thoughts and actions, are shaped by the light/darkness permeating all reality; we are but creatures of Shadow; everyone kind/cruel.
HONEST: '“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters,' Einstein.
People are inveterate liars, according to psychologists; but they and/or their study respondents could be disingenuous about lying.
Even if you are a freakish paragon of truth, your senses are not so veracious. Cognitive intuitions of empirical appearances are disingenuous - much to the chagrin of physicists.
Kindness; honesty, are not pre-requisites (or ontologically feasible) but financial solvency, however, most certainly is.
Also, a willingness to tolerate my hubris; and contradict my conceited metaphysical nihilism.
