Give it a rest, Harry
Harry Vassallo’s sell-by date has long since come and gone, like DoctorElfridSant’s. But like DoctorElfridSant, he doesn’t know the meaning of the words ‘it’s over’. He stills heads Alternattiva Demokratika, he still writes newspaper columns that rant against MLPN, and he still can’t see any difference between the two big parties. As far as he’s concerned, they’re both his enemies and so he can lump them into the same basket.
This is Harry, writing in The Times today:
The MLPN is one entity, one fundamental political philosophy, a game played by the same rules producing the same result: progress at the slowest pace possible. It is a vast tacit alliance digesting the indigestible contradictions it contains. It is sustainable development preached by those who have determined the unsustainability of the country for long decades to come, by those who have lived off the proceeds of unsustainable development all their lives. They honestly think that they can pull it off.
Over the years, I came to notice increasing similarities between the personality and public persona of DoctorElfridSant and Harry Vassallo. In the early years, I missed those similarities, but over the past few years they have become so obvious that I can’t ignore them any more. DoctorElfridSant and Vassallo are the most incredible snobs, suffer from a superiority complex, think that they are the panacea for the ills of Maltese society, are incapable of admitting defeat or error, and have an overweening obsession with networks of friends of friends and corruption. Neither of them knows how to smile or get along with people. Both live in a world of their own making, and react with disproportionate rage when thwarted. Both derive some kind of perverse satisfaction (or sense of vindication) from seeing themselves as the victim of an unjust system. Both are the heroes in the novels they have scripted, and cannot bridge the gap between the narrative they have written for themselves and harsh reality. Both speak, write and behave as though the rest of us – real people with real lives – are actors in a film they are watching or characters in a book they are reading. In this last election campaign, even their physiognomy seemed to merge, with Harry Vassallo looking more and more like DoctorElfridSant. I wonder what it all means.
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The latest trend is to change Harry to Eddie:
third paragraph:
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=69589
:)
Look at this post on The Times from another Doctor
Dr Sigmund Bonello (5 hours, 26 minutes ago)
I was lucky enough to watch yesterday’s Eurovision Beauty Contest with a group of stunning Lithuanians (on Lithuanian tv, to boot). At one point, one of the girls said “We drink more beer than Vodka in Lithuania”. Could that be the key to yesterday’s elimination? :-)
Oh come on you sour people – why don’t we just take it all in good humour. We compete, Maltese singers get a bit of limelight, they shake their booty with the rest of the crowd. L’importante e’ partecipare, no?
hmmm Gerald…
Did you enjoy the Lithuanians’s company?? hmmmm…..
stunning eh?? wow… lucky you. Ara ahna kellna niqannew bil-kumpannija ta’ DottorJosephMuscat
Hawn hija t-translation:
“Jien mhux talli ghandi PhD jew LLD, izda nghabbi l-Baltic crumpet ukoll.”
X’antipatija ta’ nies fikom, oh kompatrioti.
Someone seems to want to promote his ‘1984’. How sad.
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Morena gave a good performance, but at the beginning i could not distinguish her from the dancers. everyone was dressed in black. I think she should have been dressed in silver.
Morena didn’t get through, so what! I hope we won’t be hearing about it for months to come, just as we havn’t stopped hearing the lame excuses as why labour lost the election for the third time.
Am I getting old, or the 7 posts above have absolutely nothing to do with Daphne’s entry?
[Moderator – Tell me about it.]
@Carl – that might be a reference to Eddie Aquilina, not Eddie Fenech Adami.
Didn’t DoktorAlfredSant have a tax problem about some fee relating to Economist articles he had written, or am I wrong? If he did then would that qualify as another similarity to Harry?
@Francis – yes, you’re right. I had written that story for The Malta Independent in 1992.