Re: Short attention span theater

Dover Beach wrote:
> 
> I'm looking at the list of 100 books, and I'm thinking that although
> I've read some of them (I couldn't be arsed to count) I read them a long
> time ago.  And you know why?
> 
> Because I can't focus on anything anymore.  Here is my reading so far
> this afternoon, after I got the taxes to the CPA.  I started by
> wondering about the book S**** Pit.  Can't remember what triggered it.
> Oh, yes I do -- I heard a recording of Sylvia Plath reading her poem
> Daddy on some XM channel. So I started thinking about crazy chicks and
> political analyses of crazy chicks.
> 
And gas ovens and baking cakes and tasty treats and Thanksgiving
meals and the wonder of the holidays and the.... 


> Then I needed some M&Ms and I thought about how I really probably would
> have been better off if I had just sat down and ground my way through
> some more of Plath's poems, and just thought about those, but my head
> just constantly explodes and with teh Intarweb being universally
> available I now cannot stay focused on anything.
> 
Do you think that Thomas Young could stick to only one thing for
too long?


-- 
"Question, two men starving to death decide to eat their hair like
spaghetti. Is that funny?"
"Hmmm, well, it depends on if by funny you want to make people
laugh."
-+Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, "The Cat's Meow"