Which Way? The Dark & Swinning Side of Colourful Erections

Most voters love Tally Rooms: they lets see the political struggle in miniature: History of the Pendulum.

Parliamentary elections analyst, Antony, Tony, Green, loves the echo of Foucault’s Pendulum but hates with passion Mackerras’ pendulum .

Among parliamentary insiders Green’s pendulum is now a synonym for Not So Ripe Pendulum. This Pendulum boasts that it can metaphorically and literaly spit accurate results within hours after the elections. Under communism we knew the results years before the election without the aid of a computer program. Not So Ripe Pendulum tends to tell us that the doom is in the air for the major parties. ‘Meanwhile it is going to be tough, but not impossible for Liberal or Labour Party or Festival of Darkness to win,’ Mr Green said. At 2001 Federal election Green exclaimed, ‘Crikey, Roy and HR, but the pendulum swings both ways!’ Since then Green is no longer prepared to tip an increase or a decrease in Labor seats, no matter how safe.

The terms 'Safe Labor' and 'Safe Liberal' refer to all those seats above 10 per cent on the pendulum. Given the regular swing of the pendulum, we might expect that subsequent elections might turn more voters into swingers in every sense of the word. So the red-green-rural-urban-wet-dry parties could lose one seat and gain another. It has become redundant to say that any pedulum released by Green is the best it has ever looked, ripe, ground-breaking, intelligent, and informative, and the presentation to-the-point and attractive.

Here are a few quotes from Fucaust’s Pendulum :
What did I really think fifteen years ago? As a nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt, and you might get better.

And I began to question everything around me: the houses, the shop signs, the clouds in the sky, and the engravings in the library, asking them to tell me not their superficial story but another, deeper story, which they surely were hiding, but finally would reveal thanks to the principle of mystic resemblances.’

The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus.

...these are now people lost in a maze: some choose one path, some another; some shout for help, and there's no telling if the replies they hear are other [lost] voices or the echo of their own.

Taken literally, these texts were a pile of absurdities, riddles, contradictions.

I have understood. And the certainty that there is nothing to understand should be my peace, my triumph.

If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
-Martin Luther, (1483-1546)