Yesterday I flew with what is possibly the worst run airline in the world. The flight was late, of course, they didn’t say what was going on until the very last minute and once on board they started the flight saying that they didn’t have any change and would customers please give them some. The flight back from Milan wasn’t any better. A delay again, this time one largely caused by the fact that passengers in Gatwick were bringing more than one bag on to the plane, which then had to be moved into the hold. Yes, but if you policed the bag limit at the gate you wouldn’t have to do that, would you? Goodness me, it’s not exactly rocket science is it.

Anyway, the silver lining in the cloud of incompetency was that I was more than able to catch up with a bit of reading. Here is a little snippet from the New York Times.

The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has written that reality is now weirder than fiction – a thought echoed by William Burroughs recently I seem to recall. He (Murakami) writes: “Let’s call the world we actually have now Reality A and the world we might have had if 9/11 had never happened Reality B. Then we can’t help but notice that the world of Reality B appears to be more rational than the world of Reality A. To put it in different terms, we are living in a world that has an even lower level of reality than the unreal world.”

I think this fellow may be onto something….