"And Heaven will smell like the airport."

[greygirlbeast]

Here's the punchline: I'm running late.

In place of an actual entry today, how about a sort of photo essay? I'll give you images, and you can use them to make a story of my yesterday. And I guarantee you it'll be a hundred times better than was my actual day.

First, stale Hell (return to form):

Comments

[setsuled]

Nice photos.

I'll give you images, and you can use them to make a story of my yesterday.Okay. You found a library under the street. Inside, you read a paper on the reproductive cycle of flowers which turned out to be inscribed on the stamen of a flower. Amongst the illustrations was the painting of an 18th century Cardinal who massacred flowers with a sword. He believed that flowers were a vulgar affront to God. It made you think of Phillip George Saltonstall whose paintings seemed to have a similar effect on people. It was then you realised that a nearby lamp was in fact the ovaries of a lamp woman whose organs were distributed throughout the library. You thought of Karl Marx and his ideas about the destructiveness of religion but looking up Marx you came across Karl Max instead. You stepped back from the index cabinet and pondered the endless variability and nuance in life and information. Seeing your books on the shelf you contemplated your tiny place in this vast infinite universe as reflected by your three books among thousands

[greygirlbeast]

Brilliant!

[setsuled]

Thank you.

[sovay]

And I guarantee you it'll be a hundred times better than was my actual day.

Is true, the images tell a pretty stylish-looking day. I like especially how the lit glass of the reading lamp resembles some kind of phosphorescent orchid.

(I'm also very fond of the shot down the card catalogue, but I miss that sort of thing.)

[greygirlbeast]

(I'm also very fond of the shot down the card catalogue, but I miss that sort of thing.)

With the decline of card catalogs, so went Western Civilization.

There is going to be a new edition?

[faffinz]

I hope the Athenaeum was warm and you are getting money for the proofreading.

On a side note, Red Delicious arrived in New Zealand from Amazon about two weeks ago. Thank you for writing it. I have anhedonia with reading at the moment, so I'm saving RD to read when it has lifted (fingers crossed).

Re: There is going to be a new edition?

[greygirlbeast]

The new edition will be released by Centipede Press, presumably late this year, illustrated, etc.

[greygirlbeast]

Wait - who or what are we not allowed to bite?

Anything or anyone.

[martianmooncrab]

Remember: No biting.

*damn* that takes all the fun out of it..