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Date: 27 January 2006 19:56:33
Daughter is learning a poem, about a cat which sings the blues. I don't know the poet, which is a pity - it's a nice poem, and there may be others. And then FishSoup mentioned Hallelujah, by Leonard Cohen - I had downloaded a track of him singing it himself from what used to be called Big Noise Music. I thought that this was the nearest thing we had to a blues song, and said as much to daughter, and that the blues is a kind of sad song, and she said - how can a song called Hallelujah be a sad song?
There's something about singing a sad song that seems to draw the poison out of a wound. Somehow giving expression to the pain makes it more bearable. Not that I'm feeling miserable, of course. Actually I'm feeling better than I have been. I seem to be gaining some perspective.
I had an exciting time at work. I had to go into the machine room. I was just telling Wife that not so long ago the most powerful supercomputer in Europe lived in that machine hall. It was looking a bit empty to-day. I suppose that as computers get more advanced, they take up less space.
Stanley, the stick insect, has died. We've waited a few days, in case he was just playing dead, but we're pretty sure now that he has indeed shuffled off this mortal coil.
:-(