I can't get enough of this! The mirage in the mirror, a simulacrum twice reflected back at you...am I alone in thinking this a hilarious exercise? In Life! today: Gopal Baratham: "You must write for an audience. Writing for yourself is masturbation." Poppycock. Nabokov: "There can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art."

Now for more wanking...these are the first two paragraphs of a work of agitprop which I've been coerced into writing for my platoon yearbook (well, actually there is some sort of under-the-table recompense: more off-passes. Shhh...), Spanished and reEnglished.

The history of the human effort is left in disorder with cases of initiating dangerous. The first man, delirious with the hunger and fact in front with options that have supper limited, that was quite imprudent to swallow one ostra crude. Heretics. of the reform. Huss, Luther, Calvin. who, in an intense age of spirituality of doctrinaire, had the conviction to oppose a social structure monolithic and hardened as the catholic church, and the value of holding the persecution that happened. The states based on the satellites of the ex-ones, derrelicto and alienated seriously after the demonstrated lack of seven decades of social engineering, the economic aid puppetry and artificial policy, doing the onerous attempt to reintegrate they themselves in a system of the capitalist. In any revolutionary company, the success must fortitude, persistence, tenacity, fearlessness, vision. Perhaps all the essential qualities, no doubt, but we report out of proportion of the credit to those huge abstractions, and discounted the importance of the worldly servitude, without which those high qualities are in useless. The reconstruction of history is often a dishonest business. Evident those in favor will lustrarán inevitable on the trivialities, embellish the daily routine prosaic and the boredom, will omit the attractiveness little and the disagreeable one, in a supply to dramatize and will be glorified. It is rarely a conscious manufacture nevertheless, and quite often the result of a natural romantic propensity. The stories of the fabulous heroísmo and the fabulous danger sing in the memory; the faithful but sober accounts of the boring work no.