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Yvonne DeCarlo 2

Cruel Sister

On page 376

...of The Goldfinch. So far I like it. There's nothing like getting lost in a big fat novel.

Page 1

I had this image in my head for a long time, as an opening of a story. A man looks out a window, a phone rings, he answers it. Will it turn out to be something? Will there be a story? I don't know. Maybe.

Folk Rock

Top 5 British folk rock albums:

1. Unhalfbricking by Fairport Convention
2. The Lady and the Unicorn by John Renborn
3. Cruel Sister by Pentangle
4. A Maid in Bedlam by The John Renborn Group
5. Basket of Light by Pentangle

Michael Palin

Should have been working...
but watched Michael Palin's program about Andrew Wyeth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ1NDu...
then another one, about the Danish artist Hammershoi, that I didn't know about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhQmS8...
and then finally watched an hour long interview with the man himself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEFHNY...

Laurel & Hardy sketch

Yvonne DeCarlo

Chapter two

I woke up, ants were walking in my ear. The fire had died out. A slow death for Mister Fire. The stars were looking down without comment. I listened to the sound of nothing. It was impossible to go back to sleep. To go to sleep in the desert. To wander in the desert, asleep. To sleep wander, in the desert. How long does the wall sleep? Who asks the dying bird? Do you see the seven stairs? Do you speak in the night? Do you walk in the rain on Sundays? Will you read the newspaper when it's wet? Will you read the moon when it's wrong? Have you walked around the mountain? Did I have a watch? No. No, I didn't. My wrist was bare. Klaus was awake, slowly putting on his boots.
-Will we be saved?-If we are found.

Painting by Matisse