Bo Fowler's Blog, page 15

Remark on Colour

Do people blind from birth ever secretly suspect that all our talk of colour is nothing but an elaborate lie? 

The Botanist

Truth is less a book more a dazzling plant festooned with poisoned barbs.  

Design Argument

Were the universe meant to make sense it would quickly disappear in a puff of logic.

Therefore the universe is not meant to make sense.

Entertainment

Churches are like theatres: while I never go into them it's reassuring, I guess, to know they are there. 

The Alcoholic

It has to be said that she was a very considerate drunk at dinner parties always managing to throw up into her own wine glass.

Closed Minded

The great medieval doors had been ingeniously designed so that they could only be opened from the outside; once inside the church it was quite impossible to ever leave.

Untitled

Masturbation: a cheap thrill made at the expense of 1.2 Billions of years of evolution.

Reflection

Art is nothing but lightwaves reflecting into the eyeballs of primates.

The Uncertainty Principle

A week after they had come up with the concept of Quantum Teleportation, Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen met up once again but on this occasion nothing at all sprang to their prodigious scientific minds and so at 8 o'clock they went home. 

Towards a Pessimistic Theory of Art

Our perceptions of the world are, in the last analysis, pains.

And what we regard as beautiful are simply those experiences which hurt us the least.