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Maybe they'd have to hold each other when it rose, all organe and full and close. Maybe that's where our romantic notions about the moon first came from. Two people holding each other to keep their hearts from breaking, because everybody they knew was dying in the cold rocks and dust piles a quarter million miles away...
The Brothers K
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mandag, juli 12, 2004
Weather in Oslo continues to suck. It was so promising at lunch today - I even got to take off my jacket!! But now there's a heavy cloud layer over the city and it's been pouring on and off all afternoon. Sigh.
In other exciting news: Photos have been updated! Woo. Go visit :) http://www.stanford.edu/~rneil/oslo
I've been reading this book called "Shogun" which is absolutely wonderful. I've considered throttling the friend that gave it to me, because it consumes every waking minute that I have when I'm not at work. But I'm curbed by my thankfulness. The characters are unbelievably complex, it's fun to try and (re-)learn the Japanese, and the plot is always thickening. The book is like 1000+ pages, but it still is covering so much ground so quickly in the story. While the Japanese are really stereotypical in some ways, they're interesting enough as individuals despite that. It's quite an epic tale, and I'm very much looking forward to figuring out what Toranaga has going on in that brain of his.
I had some other things I wanted to talk about but they escape my mind right now. The brain is sort of semi-functional at the moment, due to 330 trees that had to be banked. Thankfully they're finally done. Now I get to analyze vocab. Yay. :) More later, when I remember what I wanted to say.
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