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Article: The comedy's over and the weak need to speak
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 13, 2009
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HEART BEAT: Bertie and Charlie were no Laurel and Hardy - at
least those guys were funny
WE'RE BEGINNING to wake up after a long period of blissful sleep
in which we dreamed of inhabiting some Hy-Brasil type "and of the
blest".
Now it's cold and chill and somebody has just removed the
blankets and we have to get up and face the real world.
The first thing we note is that it's dark outside, no sunlight
breaking through the sombre skies. It can't be that gloomy, we
think. Oh, but it can; it is. TS Eliot wrote that "Human kind,
cannot bear very much reality", but the real world is now where we
are and it doesn't look very appealing.
It seems pointless to talk about the inadequacies of our ...