Baby steps

How to begin... It's walking into a room or writing the first sentence of a novel, first impressions last. Most of all I still have to set my tone just for myself. As you'll see, it will be markedly different than that of my partner in crime. Do I talk about my nonplussed-ness at tonight's episode of SYTYCD or go on about the so-far amazing film "Before Night Falls"? Decisions!

I guess for now I'll start with a quote from a book I read in high school. The quote hit me so hard I fell unconscious for a week & I had to get two new kidneys. It's from a book called Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell that is actually a piece of work just in structure. It's 6 separate stories that move from colonialism/slavery to the 60's & eventually a post-Apocalyptic future where everything we know of has been destroyed by some unknown means. The writing styles vary from a journal, film with producer commentary, letters, to a mystery novel. The most interesting part is that the first 5 stories are cut in half so you read the first half of the first book, the first half of the second book all the way up until the 6th which you get as one whole. Then, a character in the 6th begins to watch the second half of the 5th, at the end of which a character from that watches the second half of the 4th, & so on. I suggest going & picking it up as it's a great read. But it's really the first (& last) book, "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewig" that has all of the waxing poetry & philosophizing. Here's what Adam writes after talking about the extinction of a race of aboriginal people...

"As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent."

Glitter. Everywhere. Read it again? I dare you. Now go sit in the corner & eat a muffin. Jazakmomohu Khairan [MdG]