Leather Jackets
Mozart
Knowing how to change a tire on your bike
Or a car
Driving cars that basically run on explosions (soon!)
The radio
Complaining about the younger generation (»When I was young, our game boys were only black and white!«)
Complaining about the weather
Complaining about the Russians
Complaining about anything, including not being able to complain about anything
The F-Word
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Metropolis
Boys liking to play at war
Old men liking to play at war
Young men dying in war
Mothers dying to protect their children
Children dying in their mother’s arms
Not talking about the war too much
Vinyls
Having more success by being polite, be it in love, business or life
Charlie Chaplin
The chance to learn something about a person by looking at the contents of their bookshelf
Books
Especially Science Fiction books
Like H.G. Wells
And Jules Verne
But also Jane Austen
And Keats, and Chesterton, and Shakespeare, and Goethe
Complaining that the younger generation doesn’t read books anymore
Quantum mechanics
Christians refusing to ›believe‹ in evolution
Christians trying to prove God’s existence
Atheists trying to prove God’s non-existence
Chesterton, again
Both Christians and Atheists killing lots of people
Muslims too
Also Hinduists
But Mormons not killing anyone
Amish neither
The board game Monopoly
The stock market (or real life Monopoly)
Homeless people (or real life Monopoloy losers)
Poor people (Jesus was right)
Rich people getting richer on the backs of poor people
Rich people complaining about poor people
Rich people complaining about poor people while getting richer on their backs
People mistrusting the rich
People mistrusting the government
The government misusing the trust of their people
The telephone
The telephone game
Pencils
Hand-written letters
White Americans not knowing how to treat black Americans (or any non-white Americans)
Black Americans being discriminated against by white Americans
Women being discriminated against by white men
Eastern Europeans being discriminated against by western Europeans
Mentally sick people being discriminated against by everyone
The Irish being made fun of by the English
The English being made fun of by the Irish
The Scots not wanting a part of any of it
Hot air balloons
People claiming that if we could just get rid of X everything would be better
X changing quite rapidly
The Pythagorean Theorem
Thank you for reading. Written second half of March 2018.
I’m an independent writer, translator and editor. If you think I can help you with something, shoot me an email at chrisloveswords@gmail.com.
