Walked to work this morning to reintroduce my body to the concept of regular exercise.
Lecture in the afternoon on the philosophy of death as it relates to near-death experiences.
Now recovering on the sofa.
Today's idle internet browsing yields:
Nine months in the long limbo of long Covid, a sobering read by Ed Rooksby:
"...the fact is that you just don’t know if you are ‘vulnerable’ or not to this virus – no one can be sure that they are ‘safe’ from it. Indeed it’s currently thought that one in 20
people who develop symptoms on infection might suffer symptoms lasting
more than eight weeks and, further, a significant number of those people
remain unwell for several months (at least) after infection. This isn’t
‘just’ elderly people or those with ‘pre-existing health conditions’,
but includes relatively young, relatively fit and active people like me..."
Good news for Beatles fans - Klaus Voormann has an online shop!
Revisited Jon Ronson's exquisite 2006 Graun article about the TV show Deal or No Deal, Think Outside The Box, and found this paragraph:
"According to the Cult Information Centre's pamphlet Cults: A Practical Guide, cult leaders routinely employ 26 skilful techniques to keep their followers under their spell. One of the main ones is "Isolation: inducing loss of reality by physical separation from family, friends, society and rational references.""
Hmm.
Today's photo: The View From Here.
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