Subway fail/reading win
Nov. 17th, 2010 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyGuess who got trapped in the subway tunnel between Warden and Kennedy for half an hour this morning? It's not just me—transit is getting worse. As is my claustrophobia.
On the plus side, I'm reading Seeing by Jose Saramago, and it's excellent. My favourite bit so far:
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On the plus side, I'm reading Seeing by Jose Saramago, and it's excellent. My favourite bit so far:
The most common occurrence in this world of ours, in these days of stumbling blindly forward, is to come across men and women mature in years and ripe in prosperity, who, at eighteen, were not just beaming beacons of style, but also, and perhaps above all, bold revolutionaries determined to bring down the system supported by their parents and to replace it, at last, with a fraternal paradise, but who are now equally firmly attached to convictions and practices which, having warmed up and flexed their muscles on any of the many available versions of moderate conservatism, become, in time, pure egotism of the most obscene and reactionary kind. Put less respectfully, these men and these women, standing before the mirror of their life, spit every day in the face of what they were with the sputum of what they are.
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Date: 2010-11-18 02:03 am (UTC)That is my worst nightmare. I definitely feel for you.
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Date: 2010-11-18 11:14 am (UTC)I mean, if one's aggressively dumb enough at 18 to want a fer realz revolution, then what's there to expect, really.
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