Thomas Fuller: a guest blog

Guest blogger Thomas Fuller is the author of two novels, Monsieur Ambivalence (2013) and The Classical World (2018). An avid reader of daily newspapers, Fuller keeps a journal from which these entries have been taken. I asked Fuller for a portrait to accompany this blog: he kindly provided the image of the late Peter Sellers:

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FASHION is for rich people who no longer care what they look like AND for richer people who wear what they like to wear and don't care what others think.

POLITICS are now far more interesting than SPORTS, even in the midst of The World Series, the opening of the NBA season, and the Professional Golf Association's ZOZO Championship in Chiba, Japan.

ART has become the most stable institution in the world. You have to be honest with art, whether you're making it or looking at it. CULTURE is another thing, culture is highly unstable: the ARTIST's we should know about now are the ones we'll only know about later.

DEMOCRACY: a system where THE PEOPLE can be wrong and be wronged, both at the same time.

THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM: Republicans now officially a CULT and Democrats a FAST-FOOD FRANCHISE offering a variety of drive-thru candidacy's. 

POLITICIANS: a man or woman who is able to grin against all odds. 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMON SENSE: In suppport of almost any idea before its time, I propose the USA create a Department of Common Sense in the spirit of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the 49-page pamphlet published anonymously in 1776, and that it replace The Department of the Exterior.

Peter Sellers as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1964). Sellers also played the President of the USA, Merkin Muffley, in this cinematic masterpiece.