The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
- Margaret Atwood
--except, dear Ms. Atwood, that the snow outside my window is blowing about sideways while a desperate pale light is trying to get through the thick clouds, and it is APRIL. The enchantment I think about is dark magic, and the author of it a character from the bowels of villainy.
I would enjoy this enchantment far more if it were sunny inside my own personal universe but it isn't, so I am appropriately demoralized.
I learned something about idioms last night:
"Son of a gun" - is a maritime idiom that originated in the British Navy. It is supposed to have been used for the babies belonging to sailors being born under the relative shelter of a ships' gun.
I always thought is was a euphemism for "son of a bitch" but now I find the naval origin more plausible.
And now on to idiots. I am one. An idiot who jumped. "Lundagin mo, beybe" - something I heard in philosophy class years ago at university.
Jump, it says. Live. GO for it.
Some of us fools are dashed on the rocks below, you know. :p Just for the record. Some of us cross continents chasing after stars and hearts and cheese and we fall on our faces. Just for the record.
Snowed-in little cat, signing out.
- Margaret Atwood
--except, dear Ms. Atwood, that the snow outside my window is blowing about sideways while a desperate pale light is trying to get through the thick clouds, and it is APRIL. The enchantment I think about is dark magic, and the author of it a character from the bowels of villainy.
I would enjoy this enchantment far more if it were sunny inside my own personal universe but it isn't, so I am appropriately demoralized.
I learned something about idioms last night:
"Son of a gun" - is a maritime idiom that originated in the British Navy. It is supposed to have been used for the babies belonging to sailors being born under the relative shelter of a ships' gun.
I always thought is was a euphemism for "son of a bitch" but now I find the naval origin more plausible.
And now on to idiots. I am one. An idiot who jumped. "Lundagin mo, beybe" - something I heard in philosophy class years ago at university.
Jump, it says. Live. GO for it.
Some of us fools are dashed on the rocks below, you know. :p Just for the record. Some of us cross continents chasing after stars and hearts and cheese and we fall on our faces. Just for the record.
Snowed-in little cat, signing out.
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