Steve Richards turned to the back page of one of the more popular sunday newspapers and there we were – in a parallel universe. We’d been voyaging through the upcoming Day Of The Big Cuts and the other looming problems building a thicket around us and then, all of a sudden, there we were :::: in a parallel universe. A footballer, referred to only by an abbreviation of his name and the club he plays for, a flamboyant footballer is quoted as petulantly proposing not to play unless he’s paid something in excess of 100K EVERY WEEK! Boy oh Boy, what a wonderful world he lives in. Never mind the parallel universes which may or may not concern the philosophers of astrophysics. Here’s a parallel universe right next door to the panoramic newsday studio. OK! Not quite that. Just the back page of one of the Sundays. Worlds apart from the universe tearing large headlines through the front face of the same objective recorder of tunnelling spacetime.
Makes me think that when “me’n’me mates” steps inner the World Between the Worlds - you know what I mean if you’ve been there - we still have our feet firmly on the ground. In the Real World. In a parallel universe. That’s reality for you.
francis cameron, oxford, 17 october 2010
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