my life as a artist
feed the birds
Monday 13th October 2008 11:21 PM
.According to James 'really' Naughtie, speaking today on Radio 4's ironically titled 'World at One', £9,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that's nine bilious godzillions) worth of stocks and shares had been 'lost-in-action' on the stock exchange that morning, wiped out, apparently, in one brutal cut-blood-spurt-artery slash. They weren't wiped out, of course, because they weren't there in the first place, but nevertheless, James painted a picture, (in words, because quick pencil sketches don't work on radio) describing the trading floor as being awash with bloodied bankers, mired in the red, with no futures and no options, paying the price of the past, with interest.
To matters financial,
My resistance is substantial,
And the tedium's not a medium amount,
When money talks I'm snoring,
I think interest is boring,
It's an overdrawn and very dull account
I wrote that a few years ago, and I don't feel quite the same now. I find it heartening that common or garden-of-eden people are talking about the banking sytem on their local omnibus, because it won't take much inquiry to reveal the whole thing for the pernicious scam it is. A few days ago, on a radio 4 phone in, I was delighted to hear a call from a gently -spoken old lady who said. 'We've heard a lot from politicians and bankers about the financial crisis, but do you think it might be worthwhile to hear the opinion of say, an anarchist or someone like that?'
Last week, due to temporary financial difficulties, I had a cheque bounce and failed to meet two standing orders, despite having uncleared cheques in the system that would have covered the amounts. Understanding the problem as only a bank can, my caring, sharing Co-op decided to take £90 out of my account in mysterious charges, which of course didn't really help matters. This morning I went into the bank, and after scouring the inside back pages of the Yorkshire Post for free Huddersfield Town news, told the assembled staff that if they persisted in their materialistic view of life, they would be in great danger of immunising themselves from their own radiance, which could ultimately lead to complete isolation from the miraculous. After getting one of the bank-tellers, a pleasant young woman, (I don't know her name was but she had a badge called Janet), to agree with me that there was a place for unarmed truth and unconditional love in the modern banking world, I managed to get a £60 refund. At tuppence a bag, that's a lot of bird food.
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