...for a seller of stoves

[thiel]

Today we bought a new stove (to replace the waterlogged old one) from a man selling all sorts of electrical items out of a shop on Belleville. I entered with a rose, and was immediately transfixed by a wall of televisions broadcasting video-clips of East-European pop ballads - all close-ups of teeth, doves and hair in slow motion. But I snapped out

Comments

[sockscantmatch]

odd things to see on television.
I do so enjoy reading of your flowery advendtures, thiel. will they also be published like last year?

elle

[thiel]

I'm so glad that you're enjoying these tales; and, yes, I am thinking of publishing an account of the year, along with the poem...

Remind me.

[sockscantmatch]

I will do so. when do you want this reminder, and how often?

[thiel]

Let's say, um, four randomly-spaced reminders before January 15, 2007?

Thanks ever so much.

[shuraiya]

Hahaha, that's great.

But what happened to your old stove?

[thiel]

I washed it.

[peppapig]

washed it?

[thiel]

Yeah. It was really dirty.

[katescorner]

Your accounts are always so lyrical. It's easy to imagine standing in the background, watching the scene. I'm so glad that your journal was spotlighted. Sometimes people really need that spark of joy.

"Every life, every person is a miracle that changes the world."

[thiel]

Thank you, warmly, for these very encouraging words. I'm so pleased to hear that you're enjoying my project, and my account of it.

[karmic_circuit]

I really feel that this can't be said enough: you have such a poetic, lyrical style. I love the rhythm and cadence in your sentences.

I find myself stopping in the electronics section of stores all the time, just to watch the walls of TVs--flat screens, plasma screens, giant box sets, tiny travel-sized numbers--all playing the same thing. The same image showing on each screen, in different sizes and dimensions and colors.

[thiel]

The TV-walls are entrancing, I agree, especially when they're playing the kinds of things I was watching this afternoon. This one particular woman's hair just kept spinning and spinning.

Thank you for these nice comments about my writing - it's wonderful to know that people like you are enjoying this.

[rainpaint]

... close-ups of teeth, doves and hair in slow motion. But I snapped out of my reverie...
hahahahhaha

[thiel]

Hee! I'm glad that you enjoyed this retelling as much as I enjoyed the event itself...