Sunday 18 January 2009

Wise

I have just been watching the tribute to John Mortimer. Quite wonderful. He was described as not knowing right from wrong. Neil Kinnock described him as almost all love.

If we open up to not knowing, to never being sure of any view this can be scary. How do we know what to believe? We need take care that we don't simply swap one set of fantasies for other less skillful fantasies. We need workable ways to be. In Mortimer's Rumpole we have Rumpole saying that he 'is not there to believe any thing' and later asking himself and 'she who must be obeyed' who he is? before returning to his work (and thus defining himself). What can be a better tribute to workable ways to be than to be described as almost all love?

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