Fred’s candle appears to have drawn some new faces into Goanet’s Living Room! However, unlike newspapers – where the editorial policy illumines what types of candles can be brought into and lit – at Goanet, everyone is encouraged to bring and light their own candles.
Over the years, we have seen all kinds of candles take the stand. Some so small, they only highlight the label authenticating ‘Place of Origin’. Others so tall, they keep spiders awake 24/7. And there are some that give out more smoke than light, or laboriously fluctuate between emitting white smoke and black smoke. And there are some that get easily blown away and others quite the contrary. Occasionally, a candle becomes inflated on arrival and subsequently so oversized that you can’t get it out the door, and have no other recourse but to wait for it to burn its course. Even less occasionally, a candle gets glaringly out of control and requires someone from the Goanet Admin team to have it towed away! This does not mean that those who are ‘silent’, or who habituate in the more obscure parts of the Goanet household have no candles of their own. They certainly do, and when they do come out, their light is so overwhelming that those who find themselves on the receiving end of the illumination, swiftly wish they had gone about the household like sacristans with a brass extinguisher on a pole rather than in their self-anointed, stretchable miters! On the other hand, if everyone lit a candle, we may end up with too much light, summoning the need to pull down the blinds or reach for goggles and in that creepy setting, bump into the very ones we had contemptuously sworn ourselves never to run into! Dom Martin
