What's Hugo eating today?
Sunday: Collected stories, Guy de Maupassant
****: Spicy!
Monday: Manifesto of the Communist Party, K. Marx, F. Engels
**1/4: Share!? Pfffff.
Tuesday: Ignorance, Milan Kundera
-: Meh. Makes kibble look like prime rib. Ooo, pri-... hey, lady…
Best line chewed this week: ‘He was like a man preceded into a room by acrobats.’
– Paula Fox, Desperate characters
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- aaaaahhhhh young pups! Varied and ever changing.
— Mary Beth Jul 15, 6:48pm # - yum.
— michaelbrown Jul 16, 11:30am # - Unpalatable yet nutritious, like the mislaid childhoods of the acrobats and escape artists of this generation—moving often so that they may avoid the pains of nostalgia that plague those who have overlearned the lessons of innocence. Its the way we trace the scars and discolorations on our bodies, remembering the tree we should not have climbed or the car ride home from a friend’s house when we should never have fallen asleep. Maybe we should never fall asleep again. We barely dare to think of it, because what we really wish is that we could return to before it happened. We wish also that we could return to before we knew about it—as if we would be happier if we could turn back time and watch it happen to us, again and again and again, each time turning back the dial to erase it… just so we would never know.
[I’m just chewing on some words here. Hugo inspired me. I’ll be lying on the floor and salivating on books for the duration of my day off, I believe. Also a nod to Paula Fox, who caused me to think about acrobats, although my words are not as light on their feet as hers are.]
— Joel Moody Jul 26, 7:20pm #
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