Welsh Rugby and summer reading

I've revisited the Dark Ages: the time before the internet! All promises for my trip to Belfast that I'd be able to access this site (or my email) proved futile. The reasons are too complicated to explain, but the result was a forgotten experience of unobtainablity. I got to like it. Now that I'm back, I see Carl has reminded me of the recent Welsh rugby débâcle. Reading Norman Lebrecht's recent volume on the demise of classical music (Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness [Penguin/Allen Lane, 2007]) brings to mind why self-destruction can sometimes epitomize art and civilization and Welsh rugby! Hubris, too, is a product of the Fall.