tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post2952382393654947385..comments2023-09-05T08:45:22.572+01:00Comments on Bête de Jour: Rage, RageLa Bêtehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934460455824439786noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-26495923325411537302008-12-22T14:27:00.000+00:002008-12-22T14:27:00.000+00:00I'm 30 and was diagnosed with Cervical Cancer 6 mo...I'm 30 and was diagnosed with Cervical Cancer 6 months ago (on the day of my grandmothers funeral. Good day.)<BR/>I was lucky and caught it relatively early (ladies - have your tests!) but it's honestly not as bad as you think it's gonna be! Once you know, you just kind of get on with it. I did anyway. <BR/>Hope that's cheered you up! =DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-25776653728090686452008-12-21T21:18:00.000+00:002008-12-21T21:18:00.000+00:00Thanks for sharing, everyone. Princess, you really...Thanks for sharing, everyone. <BR/><BR/>Princess, you really think smoking weed once every few weeks will make a difference to my testicle health? <BR/><BR/>Thanks for that poem, emordino. I like it very much. <BR/><BR/>Sorry to hear your news, Anonymous. I wish you the best of everything. <BR/><BR/>Of course I meant it, Assassin!La Bêtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05934460455824439786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-84117664503679429372008-12-21T19:29:00.000+00:002008-12-21T19:29:00.000+00:00Thank you if you really do mean what you've said i...Thank you if you really do mean what you've said in the last paragraph!;)greenteamatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15192171918735162957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-70863161787345920012008-12-18T20:23:00.000+00:002008-12-18T20:23:00.000+00:00A few years ago I was diagnosed with prostate canc...A few years ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, the disease you cannot name. Treatment was varied and long, the upshot is that I can no longer fulfill my sexual desires, which were powerful. I fear death but I would have liked to have some enjoyment beforehand to ease the blow. The man said I was cured, but I am not all that sure. I see death at every corner and I hate him. I am determined to go kicking and screaming. I think I would have preferred to be taken by surprise, I can't stand the anticipation. So hang on in there, it is not always dark at night, sometimes there is a full moon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-48110108685207288512008-12-18T19:56:00.000+00:002008-12-18T19:56:00.000+00:00Finally, someone as neurotic as I am, in very simi...Finally, someone as neurotic as I am, in very similar ways. I also agree with Luka and Clare Sudders. You MUST enjoy the present. <BR/><BR/>Maria in OregonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-8714598238241801242008-12-18T15:07:00.000+00:002008-12-18T15:07:00.000+00:00There was a bloke on the radio last week, said, 'I...There was a bloke on the radio last week, said, 'I'm the world's worst hypochondriac. If you don't believe me, ask my gynocologist.'Stuart Galliganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553418814568002767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-36422680920552753202008-12-18T14:24:00.000+00:002008-12-18T14:24:00.000+00:00Get a grip, man! (This is the part where I would g...Get a grip, man! (This is the part where I would give you a slap around the chops).Laineyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10142623525232620987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-48748751539965964272008-12-18T14:11:00.000+00:002008-12-18T14:11:00.000+00:00Bonjour La Bête,You know, when you've aknowledge t...Bonjour La Bête,<BR/>You know, when you've aknowledge the fact that life is a cruel bastard, you are just left with one very simple option : Stop thinking too much and enjoy all the pleasant moments and people.<BR/>Be a simpleton.<BR/>You are too clever, bad luck.<BR/>Uncle DidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-23265309060206909702008-12-18T13:30:00.000+00:002008-12-18T13:30:00.000+00:00I've had the camera down there. The bloke with the...I've had the camera down there. <BR/><BR/>The bloke with the gelled hands said I should break open the champagne.<BR/><BR/>He didn't give me any, though.Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00340519450159428760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-69371233070363389412008-12-18T12:45:00.000+00:002008-12-18T12:45:00.000+00:00> Sometimes the blade is dragged deep from my c...> Sometimes the blade is dragged deep from my crotch to my neck like a giant zip and my insides flop to the floor in a wet heap.<BR/><BR/>"Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps..."<BR/><BR/>This post reminds me of <A HREF="http://dennisodriscoll.com/poetry/someone" REL="nofollow">this poem</A>, which is excellent and which I like very much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-48381833779183226782008-12-18T11:44:00.000+00:002008-12-18T11:44:00.000+00:00Bete - if you could live forever with life exactly...Bete - if you could live forever with life exactly as the way it is, i.e. disappointments, fear, happiness, sadness all intertwined, would you want to? <BR/><BR/>To quote one of my favourite philosophers, Nietzsche: "What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be<BR/>nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence-- even this spider and this moonlight between the<BR/>trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"<BR/><BR/>The question is: "Do you desire this (i.e. your life as it has been as it will be) once more and<BR/>innumerable times more?" Or how<BR/>well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more<BR/>fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?<BR/><BR/>Think. Reflect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-74320029241154096282008-12-18T09:53:00.000+00:002008-12-18T09:53:00.000+00:00Well, all I can say categorically is that it won't...Well, all I can say categorically is that it won't be a Circle Line train....there bloody AREN'T any!!! xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-84282641789375853942008-12-18T08:25:00.000+00:002008-12-18T08:25:00.000+00:00I too get the vivid imaginings of what it is like ...I too get the vivid imaginings of what it is like to be run over.<BR/><BR/>Hope the pains are easily explained by something mundane like tight underwearAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-44185203183120420072008-12-18T00:25:00.000+00:002008-12-18T00:25:00.000+00:00PPS I told the child of a friend recently that she...PPS I told the child of a friend recently that she was a hypochondriac and her response was, oh my god, hypochondria, what's that? Oh my God, I have a MENTAL DISEASE. I'm really ill!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-56562286233789053602008-12-18T00:23:00.000+00:002008-12-18T00:23:00.000+00:00Two of my closest friends lost their fathers this ...Two of my closest friends lost their fathers this month. Both were particularly stressful deaths. Another close friend is languishing on a sofa after major surgery. <BR/><BR/>Me? I'm pretty good. OK, so I'm poor and lacking in a much-awaited book deal, but I have the wanted child I went through hell to get, and I am a full time writer with three enjoyable books to write in 2009, and I don't have to go to a job, and I have all I ever wanted. So I'm happy.<BR/><BR/>I learnt a long time ago that it really fucks you up if you allow other people's misfortunes to get you down. It also does them no good whatsoever. It's singularly unhelpful to everyone. So I don't do it any more. <BR/><BR/>Here's the way I look at it: I don't want my friends to be unhappy. I don't really want anyone to be unhappy. I want the whole world to contain as much happiness as is physically and philosophically possible. And this is a ridiculous position to hold unless I also extend the principle to myself. Because I'm human too, and just as I want my hearest and dearest to go well, they want the same for me. And I care about them. So I owe it to them to do my damnedest to raise my head and not dwell on stuff.<BR/><BR/>As for my own mortality and impending bad luck? Of course bad things will happen to me. Whether or not I anticipate them. So why bother? Why not just continue blithely on, assuming that everything will be fine? And when the shit hits the fan, why not look forward to when the graph bends back on itself and good times come again?<BR/><BR/>I don't always manage this. I am by nature a worrier. But this is what I tell myself: When my head snaps up and I think, oh God, what if my son is dead? What if he has been hit by a car and nobody has told me yet? Well, if he's dead, he's dead. I'll find out soon enough. There's nothing I can do about it. Ignorance is bliss. At the moment I'm happy because I haven't yet been informed of his death. The misery will come soon enough. I should make the most of this state. And more generally: When the misery comes, it will be miserable. But as long as it's not here, I should make the most of its absence. My job, everybody's job, is to maximise global happiness. And that job starts here, in this chair.<BR/><BR/>PS I too am drawn to death, darkness, gloom and despair. In a [whisper] kind-of-revelling-in-it sort of a way. I was brought up by a woman whose idea of a good Sunday out was to visit random churchyards and read the gravestones. And wrote children's books about necromancy. That's fine, there's nothing wrong with that. Each to their own. Melancholy can be beautiful. As long as you remember it's just a hobby, and doesn't mean you have to be miserable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-3201220161328329722008-12-17T23:33:00.000+00:002008-12-17T23:33:00.000+00:00I think you should stop smoking weed.I think you should stop smoking weed.The Princesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04208653347023578315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-31352530333779375712008-12-17T23:11:00.000+00:002008-12-17T23:11:00.000+00:00Why don't you photograph your hurty bollock and pu...Why don't you photograph your hurty bollock and put it on the interweb for all of us to contemplate?Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-12960431561558272652008-12-17T22:06:00.000+00:002008-12-17T22:06:00.000+00:00I think it's quite common to feel that things are ...I think it's quite common to feel that things are surely too good to last. Worry is the human condition, and it's a shame, as then we're not enjoying the here and now, which is all we have.Lukahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10953112085793373849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-2699382596392895632008-12-17T21:46:00.000+00:002008-12-17T21:46:00.000+00:00Bete you are a MONSTROUS hypochondriac and you cle...Bete you are a MONSTROUS hypochondriac and you clearly have worried yourself into a near FATAL case of BALLACHE the like of which will have the DOCTORS groaning in the aisles for months to come. At least you have a modicum of insight and the grace to worry about and try and console other people with real illness. Don't distrust your happiness, savour it in the knowledge that it won't last.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-26455140805550462922008-12-17T21:38:00.000+00:002008-12-17T21:38:00.000+00:00so glad to see you changed your mind about only bl...so glad to see you changed your mind about only blogging for a year. so glad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com