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Monday, August 23, 2004

There has been quite a brouhaha here about half the new cabinet posing in the Spanish edition of Vogue. The female half, of course. Some felt that this was all rather demeaning and damaging to the image of a [socialist] government which has positioned itself as pro-women and anti-machista. I was rather more interested in the short headline in Spanish which managed to incorporate not only fashion but also new-look.


I saw a reference today to Freud’s definition of the pleasure and reality principles. Essentially, children need to move from the latter to the former if they are to mature. So what does this say about a society which is entirely devoted, it often seems, to the pursuit of fun, or pleasure? Stay tuned.


Under instructions from my elder [recovering] daughter, I went into a travel agent today to pick up some tickets for her. Each of them had 7 [yes, 7] carbon copies, 6 of which were retained by the agent. I made a half-hearted attempt to find out where these would end up but got the Spanish equivalent of the Gallic shrug.


Acting under further instructions from said daughter, I am now vacating the computer – my computer – so that she can work on her novel. Thank-God one of us is not wasting his/her time. So, that’s it, folks.


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