Bliss

Bliss

Some things I’ve talked about with my students

this past week:

When and why and how to sit

still.

Reasons to wash your hands

after using the toilet.

The Great Oxidation Event.

Since anaerobic bacteria like awful places and

excrete oxygen why we don’t send spaceships of

them to Mars and other planets to build atmospheres

for us.

What chickens see when they look at us.

Waiting for Godot. Why nothing keeps happening.

If nerve impulses are electro-chemical why

not construct nerve-pack generators.

What it means to say People should be treated

as ends not means.

Making a Rainbow Loom bookmark.

How not to fear death without believing in God

or an afterlife.

Why manga characters, baby animals and super-

models have big eyes.

Jane Eyre’s I must begin a new

existence amongst strange faces and strange scenes.

The meaning of disdain. Gastroenterologist. Psyche.

Factors affecting radicalization in British prisons.

Narrative criticisms of Alice’s Adventures in

Wonderland.

The need to keep clean so someone will love you.

Hew versus hue.

Being less original than your sister.

Come home to an email:

Wouldn’t it be bliss

to shove the dayjob

and just focus totally on writing?!!