Funny stuff

I had a comment on the “Currently reading” blog last night which really made my day. It’s the fourth one down. You should read it.

I’m left to wonder how anyone could feel so strongly about a book which, even if I had thought it “a wonderfully entertaing book of the first rate” I would still have thought rather inconsequential. It’s not as if Mr. Aitch is set to revolutionise the world with this book – unless he is seriously misguided (in which case I have seriously misinterpreted) his aim is to entertain while contributing to the sum total of observations on human nature and maybe make a bit of money while he’s at it.

I am, however, delighted at having been called a dullard. That’s never happened before and it’s such a lovely word and certainly ought to be in more general use. In fact I am going to make it my aim for today to use “dullard” in a sentence.

I have one question for you, though: What is a cavehead? I assume it’s not a compliment, but what is the implication? That my head is the shape of a cave? (Would that be a bad thing?) That I ought to hide my head away in a cave? That I am as blind as Plato’s cave-dwellers who see only the shadows on the walls and not the Thing as it is? Please, someone, explain.