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I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a podcast for BBC Radio Force thinking aloud.

Could now be the time when we abandon other social and political concerns and concentrate

our efforts upon securing that elusive but surely dis- and Hello. There were many very serious things to worry about when I was a junior pupil at a Catholic

boarding school. For example, did I have enough pocket money to buy another tub of grill cream? Did I have more LMS train numbers than my friend Edgeworth?

But on the other hand, my education did allow me to completely ignore such other matters as, well,

my own mortality. You see I already knew already knew that I

was guaranteed eternal life. My catechism could hardly have made it clearer. God

made me to know him, love him and serve him in this life and be happy with

him forever in the next. But as the shades of the shades of the

prison house grew around me and the absoluteness of death became more and more difficult to

disattend. I reluctantly joined the millions of my compatriots who were busily employing

almost any means whatever lifting weights

necking vitamins gulping turmeric

stameric a stewing alcohol riding stationary bikes solving cryptic crosswords in order to live not even forever but for that teeny

teeny teeny bit longer. And it was only after reading a new academic paper that I realized how petty how well

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