W. sends me his essay questions to amuse me.

1. In Vino Veritas. What have you learned from drinking?

2. 'I am outside the truth; nothing human can take me there' - Simone Weil. Do you consider yourself to be inside or outside the truth?

3. 'Salvation always comes from where nobody expects it, from the depraved, from the impossible'. Explain what Rosenstock means by i) the depraved, and ii) the impossible.

4. 'Nobody can truly say of himself that he is filth'. Is Wittgenstein right? Are you filth? Explain why/why not.

5. 'Our talk of justice is empty until the largest battleship has foundered on the forehead of a drowned man'. Is Celan right? Explore with reference to badminton ethics.

6. 'I think joy is a lack of understanding of the situation in which we find ourselves'. Is Tarkovsky right? What do you think he means by 'the situation in which we find ourselves'.

7. 'There are not only social problems. We have some ontological problems and now I think a whole pile of shit is coming from the cosmos'. Distinguish between what Tarr means by social shit, ontological shit and cosmological shit with reference to i) Damnation, and ii) your life.

8. Sports science is the enemy of civilization. Discuss.

9. What is the significance of the dancing chicken in Herzog's Stroszek? Explore with reference to i) human life, and ii) the cosmos.

10. 'Salvation will come, but only when we choose despair' - Kierkegaard. Have you chosen despair? Why/Why not?