THINGS LEARNED
1. From children's books: Harriet Tubman was a narcoleptic.
2. From a chain bookseller: The Picture of Dorian Gray is shelved with the other classics for elementary age children. I must now re-evaluate The Secret Garden as euphemism.
3. From retailers of expensive women's clothing: lengthy Fitting Room disquisitions between salesperson and seamstress on the customer's body flaws indeed will distinguish the on-line shopping experience. Extra points for use of "booty."
4. From manufacturers of same: genius is forever revelatory. Viz the slip dress which, once home, drapes like a tea-towel over bread dough. Resultant catastrophic diminishment in customer self-esteem = greater sales.
5. From the hard, high road: any coping skills will dissolve the instant that Big Pharma patents red wine.
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
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