Tuesday, 20 May 2014

VAST CONFERENCE CENTRES 'CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER' (Letter printed in Dom Post, May 23)

The Dom Post printed this with the last sentence deleted. Was the letter too long? Did the editor think no one would get the allusion to Lewis Carroll? Or did the editor not get the allusion to Lewis Carroll?

We’re living in Wonderland. Does it strike anyone as strange that now we have all these means of communicating electronically, we need more conference centres, and ‘vast’ ones at that, so we can communicate physically as well?

And that at the same time we’re urged not to waste fossil fuels on unnecessary travel, especially by air? And that when these thousands of people get together to confer physically, they’ll have their heads down conferring electronically, like our MPs during the reading of the Budget? As Alice remarked, ‘Curiouser and curiouser!’

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