Meanwhile...

[faustus]

Adciezl (who wanted ridiculous amounts of money for earlier books) seem to have vanished into the aether, or at least no longer are trying to flog my book, nor The Leaky Establishment.

I got my fifth annual Public Lending Right statement, and for once they are actually going to pay me some money... as they've dropped the threshold to £1. Not sure what I'll splash out the £1.58 on. Pick and mix perhaps.


And suddenly, perhaps it's exhaustion, but my mood dropped almost exactly on the dot of 11.30pm. I know the trigger, which need not detain us, but it's depressing that it depressed me. In the past 48 hours (Monday and Tuesday) I've done exhausted, angry, happy, content, and now depressed. Probably the failure to get out of bed properly until gone noon should have cued me to the direction of the day.

Boing.

To think that yesterday (Monday) afternoon someone said, "Cheer up, it might never happen." And only about three hours after he had told me I was looking well. This I cannot believe. But I can't see how his first statement could be any use to man nor beast; if I've reason to be unhappy it's crass, if I haven't it's cliché and hardly Wildean.

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Flat frequency response

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"It might never happen". I really hate that. It always seems as if the 'it' in question is their anodyne platitude itself, so in fact they've just made it happen. There's generally few things more aggravating thereafter. And if there is then it's proved them wrong...

Re: Flat frequency response

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Of course, just to be contrary, there are those times when people insist that you are having a bad time or are angry or are in a bad mood when you aren't. I have of habit of getting withdrawn in large groups and watching from the sidelines; I'm happy to do this rather than always being the life and soul.

I wasn't having a bad time, but I will if you keep on insisting that I'm having one...