{Humour in adversity}[29th May 1968]

[Redbook1:55][19680529:2230]{Humour in adversity}[29th May 1968][Age 17]

Wednesday 29th May 1968

10.30p.m.

            De Gaulle: will he resign?  -- 3 new Aluminium smelters to be built -- Kennedy loses the Oregon primary election -- Manchester United beat Benefico by 4-1, three goals in extra time.

            Clear, sun, hot, dry till about 6.0pm, then cloudy but hot.

            Nothing much really happened today.  I cleared my day-to-day file out this afternoon, for the first time since last term -- it needed it!  I posted the letter home I wrote last night in the morning.  I did some Warren’s King John, some Southern’s Making of the Middle Ages, and my notes on Cluny, Citeaux, and the medieval Church.  Dr D issued us a book to read over the Exeat -- and I thought we were supposed to relax on the Exeat!

            When I watch a horror film, as when something awful happens in life, I often automatically pick out and laugh at the tiny, funny, unintentional details -- not through sadism, but through an instinctive refusal to be bowed down by the full weight of a horror.  If I am shown too many horror films, this could become a sadistic habit, leading me to a callous ignoring of the horrible effects of some of my possible actions.

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