Reiteration

Sometimes it seems as if I'm just repeating myself ad nauseum. It's a sensation of 'deja vu' that permeates my whole existence and every conversation. In every discussion I am convinced that it has very specifically occurred before. Now some of this is down to the shear number of conversations I've had with people in the past (not as many as you would think), and surely some of these incidents are related to imagination and half-remembered dreams but is it normal to have dejá vu with every single chat? It's a little creepy. Presumably it's a function of not having talked enough during my life and so exchanges have more significance than they should, but it certainly raises the bar of difficulty for people trying to talk to me if everything feels like a repeat. Oh, chat is so dull!

congruity (plural congruities)
i) The quality of agreeing; the quality of being suitable and appropriate.
ii) An instance or point of agreement or correspondence; a resemblance.

It's as if every conversation has a congruity with a previous exchange. Mathematically a congruity is represented best by the second definition above. Two triangles are congruous if they have the same size and shape. One may be rotated to a different angle than the other but it would still be congruous, as you could rotate it and overlay the two in either order and not be able to see the lower triangle. Deja vu is just the sensation of an infinite number of congruous triangles all overlaid upon each other so you can't see any but the most recent one. It's annoying. Have I written about all this before? Who can know without reading through the hundred-plus previous posts?

More than a hundred posts... It's an impressive number. I never would have thought that could be possible, and still don't entirely believe it, or the shear number of page views on my stats page. It is madness. It's fun to write this nonsense, especially as the stories provide scope for just splashing ideas into a narrative and seeing what happens. It's obvious that the stories don't really work in a serialised form but individual segments are passable and the ideas will be used far better in the future. It's mostly the form that is the problem rather than the substance.

Now it's time to touch on something else that has a conflict of substance versus format and that's 'Doctor Who'. Look away now, Who-haters. After a run of exceptional episodes in this waning half of the seventh series it seems as if the main problem with 'Doctor Who' is that forty-five minutes is just too short a time for some of the stories they have to tell. It's almost as if someone somewhere should have a nice big button somewhere marked 'sixty minute special' that can be pushed twice per season, and maybe there should be an additional plunger switch under a glass shield for the super ninety minute special that can only be pushed once per season at most. The forty five minute limit really seems to affect the Grand High Moff (current showrunner), who has such a pedigree and so much material that his episodes are stuffed to popping point. He has also, up until very recent memory, had very little consistent backup resulting in very uneven series. Now, however, if he can hold on to Neil Cross and Neil Gaiman there's potential for a few more really good series ahead. As far as I can tell, no-one else is even worth their weight in tapioca in practical show writing terms. The lack of backup is quite evident in 'Sherlock' too but that's a whole other story. That's a lot of pressure on the Moff.

Wow, I've broken my 'Doctor Who' silence. If only there were 'Star Trek' to talk about too but that show is dead and the JJ Abrams movies are something else pretending to be Trek. Maybe it's best that way.

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