tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137783170240423063.post4014953713522619165..comments2023-09-27T08:20:53.275-04:00Comments on arcana arcanissima: fever dreamsPrunella Vulgarishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08406854591968722235noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137783170240423063.post-28755365174815312332012-12-09T10:37:00.363-05:002012-12-09T10:37:00.363-05:00We were talking about the great things
that have h...We were talking about the great things<br />that have happened in our lifetimes;<br />and I said, "Oh, I suppose the moon landing<br />was the greatest thing that has happened<br />in my time." But, of course, we were all lying.<br />The truth is the moon landing didn't mean<br />one-tenth as much to me as one night in 1963<br />when we lived in a three-room flat in what once had been<br />the mansion of some Victorian merchant prince<br />(our kitchen had been a clothes closet, I'm sure),<br />on a street where by now nobody lived<br />who could afford to live anywhere else.<br />That night, the three of us, Claudine, Johnnie and me,<br />woke up at half-past four in the morning<br />and ate cinnamon toast together.<br /><br />"Is that all?" I hear somebody ask.<br /><br />Oh, but we were silly with sleepiness<br />and, under our windows, the street-cleaners<br />were working their machines and conversing in Italian, and<br />everything was strange without being threatening,<br />even the tea-kettle whistled differently<br />than in the daytime: it was like the feeling<br />you get sometimes in a country you've never visited<br />before, when the bread doesn't taste quite the same,<br />the butter is a small adventure, and they put<br />paprika on the table instead of pepper,<br />except that there was nobody in this country<br />except the three of us, half-tipsy with the wonder<br />of being alive, and wholly enveloped in love.<br />"Great Things Have Happened" by Alden NowlanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137783170240423063.post-52453909747060493492012-12-07T10:38:59.793-05:002012-12-07T10:38:59.793-05:00There aren't any vomitoria beneath the trees. ...There aren't any vomitoria beneath the trees. Sheesh.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137783170240423063.post-21982480675358153732012-12-07T10:27:18.050-05:002012-12-07T10:27:18.050-05:00Yet another reason to go live as a hermit in the w...Yet another reason to go live as a hermit <a href="http://i45.tinypic.com/30ct9nb.jpg" rel="nofollow">in the woods</a>.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com