It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.
Interpretation
This quote humorously highlights how people can express themselves eloquently when they are in solitude, especially when engaged in a discussion with media.
Stephen Fry's quote reflects on the curious phenomenon of how individuals often find their voice and articulate their thoughts most effectively when speaking alone, particularly when ranting at a radio. It suggests that in the absence of listeners, one may feel freer to express themselves without inhibition, allowing for a flow of ideas and passionate arguments, which can paradoxically be more vibrant and bold than when attempting to communicate in a more formal or social setting.
In practice
A motivational speech about the power of self-reflection in solitude.
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.
You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.
Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.
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