I was in the Cornubia the other night when an old man told me the maddest story I’ve ever heard. He saw that I was reading an article about X Factor in the paper. He commented that television dominates our lives to an Orwellian degree. I agreed! He said that even tribes in Africa have satellite TV. I nodded; yes, in some cases, that might be true. I simply couldn’t agree with what he said next though. I’ll try and get it down as accurately as possible:
Hundreds of years ago Leonardo Da Vinci would have been lying on his straw bed. And do you know what he’d have been thinking? Two things. One: when will some fucker hurry up and invent the electric drill. And I don’t know what the second thing would be.
Interpretations welcome.
My end of year list coming up soon! If you can’t beat ‘em etc.
