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But until then, let me reveal to you the beauty of a recent spam comment:

Well, that mastodon is much less flaunting than that conjoint llama.

Isn’t that just sublime?

There’s not much to report here at All-Embracing Central; I’ve finally managed to get Quicktime to do the thing I wanted it to do and thus the media for Wednesday’s lecture is ‘sorted’ (as they say down at the docks). The research paper continues a pace and I may have a corporate speaking engagement lined up for the last quarter of the year-that-is.

Thus, no content. Wish me luck for Wednesday, although I’m confident enough to think that I shan’t need it.

My ego will be my downfall.

The Comte de Saint-Germaine works late night at the University Library. We don’t know what he is studying and it isn’t clear that he is the Comte de Saint-Germaine, but he fits all the qualifying criteria. The beard that looks like a disguise, the archaic language use and, most importantly, the name-dropping of long dead personages.

I only mention this because a similar character appears in Umberto Eco’s ‘Foucault’s Pendulum,’ and whilst both his character and mine are very definitely mortal men doomed to die they still have a certain majesty and mystery around them that make you realise that learning for-the-sake-of-learning can be respectable in its own right.

Even if it does drive you mad.

The FHG tells me that I will, one day, become such a figure. I don’t know whether that scares or pleases me.