Sheep in the Road: vol 2
A second volume of a set of sorts containing all sorts ... originally intended to be from the mumblings, imaginings, wanderings and ramblings of one of the sheep in the the road, to the hiding and skulking rebel in the margins of a page, to outrage ... but, now probably better described as a photobook with some texture. Tinkering, adding, subtracting, tweaking, rewriting ... oh hell ... a kind of impatience has taken my hand and made me press ‘publish’ ... probably some of the content may suffer from this recklessly premature move, I don’t think so ... but the well used anology ‘you can’t polish a turd’ has informed my action. I thank you. Alan Rutherford, July 2015
A second volume of a set of sorts containing all sorts ... originally intended to be from the mumblings, imaginings, wanderings and ramblings of one of the sheep in the the road, to the hiding and skulking rebel in the margins of a page, to outrage ... but, now probably better described as a photobook with some texture.
Tinkering, adding, subtracting, tweaking, rewriting ... oh hell ... a kind of impatience has taken my hand and made me press ‘publish’ ... probably some of the content may suffer from this recklessly premature move, I don’t think so ... but the well used anology ‘you can’t polish a turd’ has informed my action.
I thank you.
Alan Rutherford,
July 2015
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sheep <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> road<br />
<strong>vol</strong> 2<br />
alan ru<strong>the</strong>rford
<strong>Sheep</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Road</strong><br />
<strong>vol</strong>. 2
Liv<strong>in</strong>g to work?<br />
Or preferably, work<strong>in</strong>g to live!<br />
We are all sheep <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> road<br />
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<strong>Sheep</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Road</strong><br />
<strong>vol</strong>. 2<br />
Alan Ru<strong>the</strong>rford<br />
HAND OVER<br />
FIST PRESS<br />
2 0 1 5
HAND OVER FIST PRESS<br />
This <strong>vol</strong>ume (2) published by Hand Over Fist Press, 2015<br />
email: alan.ru<strong>the</strong>rford@blueyonder.co.uk<br />
website: www.handoverfistpress.com<br />
Design, photographs, all text and additional artwork<br />
by Alan Ru<strong>the</strong>rford
... some people cannot<br />
understand ideas like<br />
equality and freedom because<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir faith is based on <strong>the</strong>m<br />
never understand<strong>in</strong>g ... FFS!<br />
Still dedicated to Ann,<br />
Joanna, Tanya, Callum, Cameron and Oscar ...<br />
My family<br />
For Anne, my sister, and her family<br />
For Guy, Jenny and family, hold on to what is true!<br />
And <strong>in</strong> memory of my mom and dad, and bro<strong>the</strong>r Brian<br />
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Contents<br />
Introduction 1<br />
1 an abstraction 3<br />
2 Lennon presaged ... 13<br />
3 red nam 15<br />
4 Wellesbourne Market 49<br />
5 Frocester 89<br />
6 Photomural 97<br />
7 Badges 105<br />
8 Demo 121<br />
9 Dementia 135<br />
10 Follow<strong>in</strong>g on ... 143<br />
11 Tiddesley Woods 147<br />
12 Gloucester 161<br />
13 An alternative ... 189<br />
14 Family step up ... 190<br />
15 Red face ... 201<br />
16 Comic-Al ... 205<br />
17 Exactly ... 215<br />
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Photograph from around 1974, when Ann and I were <strong>in</strong> Abba, with our daughters, Chalk and Cheese ...
Introduction<br />
A second <strong>vol</strong>ume of a set of sorts conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g all sorts<br />
... orig<strong>in</strong>ally <strong>in</strong>tended to be from <strong>the</strong> mumbl<strong>in</strong>gs,<br />
imag<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>gs, wander<strong>in</strong>gs and rambl<strong>in</strong>gs of one of<br />
<strong>the</strong> sheep <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong> road, to <strong>the</strong> hid<strong>in</strong>g and skulk<strong>in</strong>g<br />
rebel <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> marg<strong>in</strong>s of a page, to outrage ... but,<br />
now probably better described as a photobook with<br />
some texture.<br />
T<strong>in</strong>ker<strong>in</strong>g, add<strong>in</strong>g, subtract<strong>in</strong>g, tweak<strong>in</strong>g, rewrit<strong>in</strong>g ...<br />
oh hell ... a k<strong>in</strong>d of impatience has taken my hand<br />
and made me press ‘publish’ ... probably some of<br />
<strong>the</strong> content may suffer from this recklessly premature<br />
move, I don’t th<strong>in</strong>k so ... but <strong>the</strong> well used anology<br />
‘you can’t polish a turd’ has <strong>in</strong>formed my action.<br />
I thank you.<br />
Alan Ru<strong>the</strong>rford,<br />
July 2015<br />
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an abstraction<br />
Spitt<strong>in</strong>g explet<strong>in</strong>g adjectives,<br />
society’s cracks are show<strong>in</strong>g and<br />
stalk<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> world advis<strong>in</strong>g cataclysmic<br />
adjustives: cuts, privatisation, scapegoat<strong>in</strong>g ...<br />
with governments propp<strong>in</strong>g up banks, condon<strong>in</strong>g<br />
tax avoidance while crim<strong>in</strong>ally delegat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
responsibilies to unaccountable charities.<br />
Flaunted class and wealth divisions<br />
are just too obvious and war and<br />
pestilunce tug and tow... well,<br />
are we to stare at <strong>the</strong> wall,<br />
seek out a sympa<strong>the</strong>tic<br />
w<strong>in</strong>dow? Fuck off!<br />
Nala Drofrehtur<br />
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w<strong>in</strong>dows
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presaged<br />
by Len<strong>in</strong><br />
You’re hav<strong>in</strong>g a laugh?<br />
Yes! I suppose I am ...<br />
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red‘nham<br />
Cheltenham, <strong>the</strong> butt of all k<strong>in</strong>d of gentile liv<strong>in</strong>g jokes<br />
has always had its fair share of lefty hot-heads, like most<br />
places ...<br />
<strong>in</strong> 1842 <strong>the</strong> last trial <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> UK for blasphemy took place <strong>in</strong><br />
Cheltenham when socialist, George Holyoake, speak<strong>in</strong>g<br />
at <strong>the</strong> Mechanics’ Institute, was fitted up by Dean Francis<br />
Close and his associates.<br />
Holyoake’s talk was about Robert Owen’s idea of Utopian<br />
communities, where between 500 and 3000 people,<br />
shar<strong>in</strong>g produce and profits, would try to be self-sufficient.<br />
Holyoake <strong>in</strong>vited questions from <strong>the</strong> audience, and a<br />
man named Maitland asked whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>re would be any<br />
churches and chapels <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>se proposed communities?<br />
Holyoake said that <strong>the</strong>re was great economic distress <strong>in</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> country, and churches and religious <strong>in</strong>stitutions cost<br />
<strong>the</strong> nation about twenty million pounds annually, ‘Worship<br />
be<strong>in</strong>g thus expensive, I appeal to your heads and pockets<br />
whe<strong>the</strong>r we are not too poor to have God?’<br />
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Hollyoake cont<strong>in</strong>ued, ‘If poor men cost <strong>the</strong> state as much,<br />
<strong>the</strong>y would be put like officers on half-pay, and while our<br />
distress lasts I th<strong>in</strong>k it would be wise to do <strong>the</strong> same th<strong>in</strong>g<br />
with deity.’ Speak<strong>in</strong>g of his own beliefs, he said, “Morality I<br />
regard, but I do not believe <strong>the</strong>re is such a th<strong>in</strong>g as God.”<br />
If Holyoake had stayed away from Cheltenham, he might<br />
never have been ‘brought to justice’, but he decided to<br />
return to <strong>the</strong> town to defend his position. At ano<strong>the</strong>r lecture<br />
at <strong>the</strong> Mechanics’ Institute, a row of policemen stood at <strong>the</strong><br />
back of <strong>the</strong> hall, and after he had f<strong>in</strong>ished, Super<strong>in</strong>tendent<br />
Russell, without a warrant, arrested him. Holyoake<br />
eventually agreed to walk down to <strong>the</strong> police station,<br />
where he was kept for <strong>the</strong> night.<br />
Three Cheltenham magistrates, Newell, Capper and<br />
Overbury, upheld <strong>the</strong> charge of blasphemy based ‘upon<br />
<strong>the</strong> common or unwritten law of <strong>the</strong> land that any person<br />
that denied <strong>the</strong> existence of a God, or a Div<strong>in</strong>e Providence,<br />
or was guilty of blasphemy, was liable to imprisonment,<br />
corporal punishment and f<strong>in</strong>e.’ and he was to be held <strong>in</strong><br />
Gloucester Gaol.<br />
The trial of George Jacob Holyoake took place on 15<br />
August 1842, before Justice Ersk<strong>in</strong>e. Holyoake pleaded<br />
not guilty, but <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> charged atmosphere <strong>the</strong> jury quickly<br />
found him guilty, and Justice Ersk<strong>in</strong>e sentenced him to<br />
6 months imprisonment <strong>in</strong> Gloucester Gaol. Holyoake<br />
protested: My lord, am I to be classed with thieves and<br />
felons?’ The judge replied, ‘No; thieves and felons are<br />
sentenced to <strong>the</strong> Penitentiary, you to <strong>the</strong> Common Gaol.’<br />
Hollyoakes lifted/adapted from article by Jill Evans<br />
on her <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g gloscrimehistory.wordpress.com<br />
site.<br />
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Photo: Cheltenham’s old police station,<br />
<strong>in</strong> use from 1840 to 1970
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From 1894 to 1906 Leckhampton Hill was <strong>the</strong> focus of a<br />
significant episode <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> history of Cheltenham. This was<br />
<strong>the</strong> struggle to protect traditional rights of way across <strong>the</strong><br />
hill, which its new owner H J Dale proposed to close to <strong>the</strong><br />
public. He built a house (‘Tramway Cottage’) for his quarry<br />
foreman <strong>in</strong> an old gravel pit beside Daisybank <strong>Road</strong>, which<br />
had been a favourite spot to set up side-shows and stalls on<br />
bank holidays. The build<strong>in</strong>g also blocked <strong>the</strong> ma<strong>in</strong> footpath<br />
up <strong>the</strong> hill, and later <strong>the</strong> area above it was also fenced off.<br />
On several occasions crowds destroyed <strong>the</strong> fences, and<br />
<strong>in</strong> 1902 four work<strong>in</strong>g men, known as ‘<strong>the</strong> Leckhampton<br />
stalwarts’, were charged with obstruct<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> police, but<br />
were acquitted. This encouraged as many as 2,000 people<br />
to ga<strong>the</strong>r and walk <strong>in</strong> procession to Leckhampton. They<br />
stopped at <strong>the</strong> Malvern Inn to hear a rous<strong>in</strong>g speech. They<br />
<strong>the</strong>n made for Tramway Cottage, which <strong>the</strong>y dismantled<br />
until hardly a stone was left stand<strong>in</strong>g. A judge found <strong>in</strong> favour<br />
of Dale’s enclosure and only three paths were granted as<br />
public rights of way. Dale rebuilt <strong>the</strong> cottage exactly where<br />
it had been.<br />
On Good Friday 1906 ano<strong>the</strong>r crowd assembled at <strong>the</strong> site<br />
and <strong>the</strong> Riot Act had to be read. Arrests followed and eight<br />
men were tried at Gloucester Assizes. Sentences of up to<br />
six months’ hard labour were imposed, though <strong>the</strong>se were<br />
substantially reduced on appeal. Leckhamptoners licked<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir wounds, and Dale imposed conditions for access to<br />
<strong>the</strong> hill.<br />
The story had a happy end<strong>in</strong>g, however. By 1929, <strong>the</strong> Quarry<br />
Company had gone out of bus<strong>in</strong>ess and Cheltenham Town<br />
Council was <strong>in</strong> a position to purchase <strong>the</strong> 400-acre estate,<br />
thus secur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> freedom to walk on <strong>the</strong> land.<br />
And so it goes on, and so forth and so on ...<br />
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a luta<br />
cont<strong>in</strong>ua<br />
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Wellesbourne<br />
Market<br />
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FROCESTER:<br />
World Music<br />
Day 1990<br />
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From <strong>the</strong> day’s programme<br />
design & production, Hand Over Fist Press<br />
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PHOTOMURAL:<br />
Rusk<strong>in</strong> College<br />
Oxford 1986<br />
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Photomural <strong>in</strong> place at Rusk<strong>in</strong> College’s student<br />
commonroom, Oxford 1986.<br />
Photograph shows Ken Gill (centre), general<br />
secretary for TASS, a trade union which was<br />
active <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> fight aga<strong>in</strong>st apar<strong>the</strong>id ... so much<br />
so that when Nelson Mandela was released<br />
and visited <strong>the</strong> UK, he chose <strong>the</strong> TASS union<br />
conference hall to meet and thank ANC exiles<br />
and activists.<br />
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BADGES:<br />
from a life<br />
well-RED<br />
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NO To<br />
WAR
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DEMO:<br />
London<br />
15 February<br />
2003<br />
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Dementia<br />
No words .... absolutely no fuck<strong>in</strong>g words!<br />
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Follow<strong>in</strong>g on<br />
... a tra<strong>in</strong> of<br />
thought<br />
Th<strong>in</strong>gs just coast along when your eng<strong>in</strong>e is well<br />
ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>ed, even though it may be old ... it can really<br />
steam and chuff.<br />
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Once <strong>the</strong> fire dims, <strong>the</strong> fuel<br />
of life starts to run out ...<br />
schizen!<br />
I have seen enough people<br />
reach a time <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir lives<br />
where <strong>the</strong> quality has gone<br />
... or worse <strong>the</strong>y have passed<br />
<strong>the</strong> signal that says ‘end of<br />
<strong>the</strong> l<strong>in</strong>e’ immenent and are<br />
just helplessly shuffl<strong>in</strong>g and<br />
screach<strong>in</strong>g for <strong>the</strong> exit <strong>in</strong> a<br />
slow and bad way.<br />
I am determ<strong>in</strong>ed to take<br />
control at around this po<strong>in</strong>t<br />
and jam on <strong>the</strong> brakes, a good<br />
journey should not be spoilt<br />
by a shit end<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
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Tiddesley Woods:<br />
<strong>in</strong> search of<br />
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Gloucester:<br />
tall ships<br />
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An alternative<br />
Gloucester<br />
Services<br />
on M5<br />
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to <strong>the</strong> plate<br />
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‘By <strong>the</strong> time <strong>the</strong> new human be<strong>in</strong>g is<br />
fifteen or so, we are left with a be<strong>in</strong>g<br />
like ourselves. A half-crazed creature,<br />
more or less adjusted to a mad world ...<br />
The Family’s function is to repress<br />
Eros: to <strong>in</strong>duce a false consciousness<br />
of security: to deny death by avoid<strong>in</strong>g<br />
life: to cut off transcendence: to believe<br />
<strong>in</strong> god, not to experience <strong>the</strong> Void:<br />
to create, <strong>in</strong> short, one-dimensional<br />
man: to promote respect, conformity,<br />
obedience: to con children out of play:<br />
to <strong>in</strong>duce a fear of failure: to promote a<br />
respect for work: to promote a respect<br />
for ‘respectability’ ...<br />
This is also known as sell<strong>in</strong>g one’s<br />
birthright for a mess of pottage.’<br />
R.D. La<strong>in</strong>g,<br />
The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise,<br />
1967<br />
Advice: Be brave, be bold, be bumptious, make <strong>the</strong><br />
most of it, make a noise, take all thats given <strong>in</strong> good<br />
faith ... and above all, take no shit!<br />
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Red face<br />
<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> pub ...<br />
a comic-al<br />
I personally cannot see <strong>the</strong> po<strong>in</strong>t of debat<strong>in</strong>g<br />
a po<strong>in</strong>t of contention with someone who,<br />
when woken by a thorough face-slapp<strong>in</strong>g<br />
with a st<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g, rotten, wet mackerel, <strong>in</strong>sists<br />
<strong>the</strong>y were soo<strong>the</strong>d awake with a soft chiffon<br />
caress … whereas Ann, bless her, loves <strong>the</strong><br />
<strong>in</strong>teraction, seeks <strong>the</strong> verbal violence, tries<br />
to lift that veil ... po<strong>in</strong>tless as it is.<br />
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Oh my god ...<br />
what <strong>the</strong> fuck did<br />
he just say?<br />
Did he say banker<br />
or wankers, oh dea<br />
la-la-la-la-la-la-la<br />
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s<br />
r,<br />
The pub, <strong>the</strong> quiz, <strong>the</strong> team; <strong>the</strong> chit-chat<br />
floats and m<strong>in</strong>gles with all <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r voices<br />
of those crowded around <strong>the</strong> quizmaster<br />
… uh-oh … ‘agree to disagree’ wafts feebly<br />
like a helpful caption to <strong>the</strong> scene before me<br />
as I hear UKIP be<strong>in</strong>g hoisted up, and <strong>the</strong>n<br />
be<strong>in</strong>g rightly sullied by Ann; <strong>the</strong> rapacious<br />
banks are chastised <strong>in</strong> pass<strong>in</strong>g …<br />
… and <strong>the</strong>n, from <strong>the</strong> elevated dais of<br />
fur<strong>the</strong>r education; <strong>the</strong> elitist rosette of a<br />
university degree; <strong>the</strong> heated puffed-up<br />
breast of a person whose life’s mean<strong>in</strong>g<br />
is be<strong>in</strong>g un<strong>in</strong>tentionally maligned; <strong>the</strong><br />
cage is rattled … and <strong>the</strong> shots are fired.<br />
Op<strong>in</strong>ion based on gut feel<strong>in</strong>gs so gallantly<br />
expressed (by Ann) is trampled by a<br />
determ<strong>in</strong>ed and repeated ’I know I’m right’<br />
stamp<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>the</strong> feet and <strong>the</strong> accompany<strong>in</strong>g<br />
vacuums of burn<strong>in</strong>g red cheek flashes.<br />
Despite o<strong>the</strong>rs try<strong>in</strong>g to pacify, what we<br />
get is a heated defence of <strong>the</strong> bunkum,<br />
which parades as <strong>the</strong> discredited and<br />
fail<strong>in</strong>g economic template we are lumbered<br />
with, as practised by today’s capitalists,<br />
politicians and bankers. In <strong>the</strong> fire its<br />
proffered dis<strong>in</strong>genuously as a fabric of wellworn<br />
platitudes, splutter<strong>in</strong>gly woven <strong>in</strong>to a<br />
woollen jargon <strong>in</strong>tended to be pulled over<br />
our eyes … all embellished and po<strong>in</strong>tedly<br />
full-stopped with <strong>the</strong> blister<strong>in</strong>g, ‘I have a<br />
degree <strong>in</strong> economics, so I know what I’m<br />
talk<strong>in</strong>g about!’<br />
Its unconv<strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>g, if I heard him correctly.<br />
And this is, <strong>in</strong> fact, just pla<strong>in</strong> red-faced<br />
<strong>in</strong>dignation, a poor substitute for those<br />
look<strong>in</strong>g for elucidation; a dubious bluster<strong>in</strong>g<br />
debat<strong>in</strong>g tactic employed by some to<br />
<strong>in</strong>timidate and bully a shak<strong>in</strong>g head; to<br />
silence those who dare to say out loud, ’<strong>the</strong><br />
emperor is naked!’<br />
Sometimes I am just so proud of Ann I<br />
could levitate …<br />
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Comic-Al<br />
and <strong>the</strong><br />
search for<br />
happ<strong>in</strong>ess<br />
The pursuit of happ<strong>in</strong>ess is an<br />
ever constant aim ... but constant<br />
happ<strong>in</strong>ess exudes <strong>the</strong> curse of<br />
smugness. How to atta<strong>in</strong> a happy<br />
medium, a balance between <strong>the</strong><br />
unhappy but necessary downers <strong>in</strong><br />
life and <strong>the</strong> exhaust<strong>in</strong>g pure highs of<br />
ecstatic occasions ...?<br />
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... <strong>the</strong> deliberate pursuit of happ<strong>in</strong>ess<br />
<strong>in</strong>variably disappo<strong>in</strong>ts ...<br />
OK ... but lets<br />
get rid of <strong>the</strong>se<br />
fuck<strong>in</strong>g frames<br />
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There is a sub-plot<br />
here, where our<br />
<strong>in</strong>trepid explorer, activist<br />
and all round crazy,<br />
hav<strong>in</strong>g got rid of any<br />
restrict<strong>in</strong>g frames of<br />
reference, decides to try<br />
and subvert this comic<br />
medium and enter<br />
some sort of meditative<br />
state by disappear<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>in</strong>to <strong>the</strong> sp<strong>in</strong>e of this<br />
book ... and <strong>the</strong>n to<br />
mooch about your<br />
house while you read<br />
this drivel.<br />
Hmmm ... lets try<br />
this ... <strong>in</strong>to <strong>the</strong> book’s<br />
sp<strong>in</strong>e and ...<br />
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... and so while you<br />
l<strong>in</strong>ger on this page,<br />
by some sleight of a<br />
deceit, he wanders<br />
about your <strong>in</strong>ner<br />
sanctum. And, because<br />
he th<strong>in</strong>ks you may have<br />
it, he metaphorically<br />
pokes his nose <strong>in</strong>to<br />
every crack or crevice<br />
of your psyche <strong>in</strong> his<br />
search for <strong>the</strong> secret of<br />
happ<strong>in</strong>ess.<br />
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Back, empty-handed,<br />
from that suspension of<br />
reality, and it seems you<br />
also don’t have what he<br />
was look<strong>in</strong>g for ...<br />
Just been root<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> your<br />
fridge ... you want to check<br />
some of those ‘eat by’ dates<br />
... sheeesh!<br />
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OK, but before this<br />
becomes too silly, you all<br />
should know happ<strong>in</strong>ess<br />
is not found by search<strong>in</strong>g<br />
for it ... Happ<strong>in</strong>ess is a<br />
by-product of attempts to<br />
reach o<strong>the</strong>r, less banal,<br />
goals ... so ... as you<br />
were <strong>the</strong>n!<br />
Oh yeah,<br />
right!<br />
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Exactly one<br />
year ago ...<br />
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