Sunday, January 06, 2008
finally found this - complete with sounds and everything ! (click on the little 'play' icons when you get to them):
unemployment can be a dangerous thing.
things that flourished under the rule of benign neglect are suddenly and shockingly finding themselves subject to the attentions of the resident ogre, causing plants, animals and little children to flee in terror. "here he comes ! i don't know what he's up to, but he's looking right at me ! aagghh! run!". 
oh, no, there is worse. woe to those unfortunate souls who, through the wicked ways of errant fate, find themselves in the presence of the ogre's - shudder - audible introspection. oh, the terror ! oh, the inhumanity ! at the first rumbling sound, the merest vibration of the beginning of the ogre's wistful word "why...",
from an email to my brother.