February 21, 2011
Didn’t have dinner with Andre, but did have breakfast and lunch and afternoon with him.
We’re at the intrigue stage. Am surprised as I would have thought my affection impossible to transfer from Georges.
But then that’s why they built the railways. To take you to new people and new places.
February 20, 2011
To whom it may concern
“Do not expect me to provide an exact account of what I have been permitted to experience in this domain. I shall limit myself here to recalling without effort certain things which, apart from any exertions on my part, have occasionally happened to me, things which, reaching me in unsuspecting ways give me the measure of the particular grace and disgrace of which I am the object; I shall discuss these things without pre-established order, and according to the mood of the moment that lets whatever survives survive.”
(Name that tune?)
February 20, 2011
(03.22)
Today I took a painful tumble. Initially it was a funny tumble. No, that’s no the truth.
Initially it was an average step.
It was an average step down a series of concrete stairs that look as they do not belong in the landscape they are located. This could explain why it was necessary to fall down them.
Ankle and knee or ankle or knee one disappeared from under me. It simply refused to function. Did that ever happen to you? Usually on a flat surface you run or walk and for no explicable reason your ankle or knee gives way and you recover contemplating that air in the joints… that’s exactly what it is it is the entrance of wind into the interior joint and well…
Whatever it is you recover.
If however you are descending a set of steps it is a tad more complicated since you have no flat surface to recover on, you’re recovering on the steep decline which means no recovering which means WHAMBLE .. flat on your arse.
Flat on your arse is the best possible outcome.
In this combination of circumstances it wasn’t the outcome. A kind of washing machine style dive ensued and my left hand third finger took the brunt of it. Lower back and shoulder also post tumble have registered the fact that in the height of the moment they were ignored but … in actual fact they took a whacking too.
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It then became a very funny tumble for two hours this was how I related to it.
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It gathered itself however and determined that no, it was more than just amusement.
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It was (and is) now pain.
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It would permit me to relieve precisely what I ignored during its moment for an extended moment of the next 5-7 hours.
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What is the science behind public tumbles as opposed to Private tumbles?
Do they hurt less at the time because there are witnesses?
Do they hurt more in the aftermath because there were witnesses that are no longer?
Is it possible that there is nothing interesting about them at all and that is why they take place on full display with the highest possible opportunity for scrutiny and witness?
February 18, 2011
“SOME 350 dangerous or “developerabandoned” housing estates, in need of urgent work for the safety of residents, have been identified in a Government report published today.
The developments represent almost 8,000 houses and account for about one in six of the 2,800 “ghost” estates identified last October by the National Housing Development Survey, which was commissioned by the Department of the Environment.”
(Source The Irish Times)
February 18, 2011
At gymnastics last night there was a scene between two males redolent of the Japanese wrestling scene in Women in Love. Have to say I rather enjoyed clocking that one!
There’s a young woman who’s very passionate about literature in the group. Lately, much to my delight, she talks excitedly about what she’s reading or read each week and I listen while I am standing on my hands. I was glad to alert her to the Lawrence scene in our midst. “look ‘ere at that” says I indicating les deux.
She hadn’t read Lawrence’s Women in Love, but it may gain an added resonance when she does!
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Spiderman has reappeared at gymnastics. I thought he hadn’t been around. He’d sprained his ankle very badly and it took four months to recover. How’d you do it? I was doing a double full back somersault one and a half twists … he began …