FATUOSITIES

To change from genocides and Trump’s narcissism, here’s something to mull about.

If fatuous could generate the noun fatuosity, I’d like to make a list of them_ fatuosities.

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Fashionable should imply beauty, taste, pleasant shape or form, pleasant to the eye. What is pleasing or appealing about torn jeans? They would pass muster if they were more comfortable. When winter winds blow they inflict cold pain on one’s limbs.

Admittedly that young lady would be lovely to look at any which way

Spectacles were a great invention. When eyesight begins to fail lenses enhance vision. Fact! What’s to gain by wearing glasses on one’s forehead?

Cyclops would probably choose a monocle

Dinner by candlelight? Was that an invention of a clever but talentless (as far as cooking was concerned) chef who thought it best not to expose his mediocre fare to the close examination of his patrons? Perhaps to make the consumption of his product so difficult in the semi-darkness, that the eater has no time to judge its quality?

Is that 2 zeros or 3 in the bill?

When everybody hankers after the sun, why do holidaymakers chasing the said sun, then need to hide it by wearing large straw hats and hide it from view by wearing dark glasses?

The sun was too hot