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- a man is walking down a street when a leaf falls on his head. it remains on his head as he flags a cab and gets into it. he commandeers the taxi cab to his location. the cab driver glances at the leaf on his head but does not say anything. the leaf remains on the man's head. when the cab reaches his destination, he pays and gets off the cab. he alights, ramrod straight, and the leaf is still on his head. he walks briskly towards his building, and then he notices that the laces are untied on his leather shoes. he bends down to retie them, and the leaf falls off. he looks at the leaf. the wind blows and the leaf is blown away. he stands up and the air is electric with the sound of small rustling leaves on the concrete ground.
- a person trips down some stairs and grazes a knee. without missing a beat, she gets up and continues walking to the meeting. the person enters the room with blood running down one knee and dirt on the other, and remembers to apologise for being late. the meeting ensues. half an hour later, when the meeting is reaching its denouement, the person casually broaches whether she could get some tissue. they tell her that there is no tissue in the room, and ask her why she would have any need for some. she pulls her chair out, and points to her bleeding knee. they exclaim OH! with almost genuine surprise; as if they hadn't noticed it when she entered the room late and walked in from the door. and such is collective blindness.
...despite complaining of overwork, in the past week i have watched a total of 6 films (stroszek, ikiru, woyzeck, tokyo drifter, the last samurai, goodbye lenin), attended jean's piano concert (i love those delicate nuances you inject into the song, like a voice), played around with the piano in hall while i was bored (but i've always tended to play it like some fancy percussion instrument), read all of herman hesse's demian (it was a short read anyway), a whole pantheon of other truly irrelevant stuff. i am the master of evasion and procastination. hooray. floor littered with paper trampled dirt fastfood cartons drink cans. and i have developed this bizarre dehydrated semblance of flu; a strange persistent rattling cough which i associate with pneumonia.
and i really really want to take a cable car ride. i know its no ski lift, but the next closest thing around here is probably a cable car ride...