I have this thing with doors. I find doors tricky, especially the automated and revolving kind. I live close to a mall with a small set of revolving doors, slowly they go round and round and you’re walking up the doors adjusting your walking speed according to the perceived speed of the current revolving of said doors. Then just as you reach the doors, they speed up making it so that I must always sort of jump into the revolution as if it were a […]
Too many damn pages for any man to understand.
“Her cup is sitting there, with a bit of tea left in it. I leave it where it is, without touching it. The cup looks like a metaphor. A metaphor of memories that, before long, will be lost.” Out of context this quote actually sounds lovely, but after ages of reading about people buying underpants and eating eel and taking dumps I was pretty much “urh!” by the time we got to saying things are metaphors. Because not just the tea cups, no “The whole […]
Book exchange!!
Thank you so much to Jelina for all this awesome stuff! Towers of stuff, weird facts about the Czech Republic. CHOCOLATE. And two awesome books that I am looking forward to read. Thank you especially for the little notes about why you like them so much. Makes me look forward to them all the more. Also now I definitely have to sign up for CBR9. Thanks I guess. ;) (Also I see your creative lettering is already paying off! SO cool!)
To the lighthouse (I can’t come up with a better or more poetic title than that)
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.” In the summer, a family travels to a house on the top of a hill with the view of a lighthouse. A woman and her son look out to the lighthouse. He wants to […]