Most politics really do border on the mundane, but are necessary to ensure there are no loopholes. On one extreme, you have thin gravy. On the other, you have canned fruit in juices. Where do you draw the line? And that's what the E.U. is drawing out.
I think too many of us have watched too many political thriller films.
Melon
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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time
