Expedients to survive (kill the time, but why do such an heineous crime?)
Habit forming. If you don’t change place to the objects, your bubble may look familiar, homish, free from others’ intrusions. Same of the things you do. You repeat routines. When you wake up you have your breakfast (some milk with instant coffee and a croissant, not very good the croissants, nothing to do with the ones they make in France). You check the e- mail then the titles on the newspapers, some Freecells, you try some piece to post. Later you go out and buy two newspapers The local one which you will not read and the Herald Tribune. You urinate and defecate. Then if you sre in goof form you read some time. You buy some food and long for the meal. Sleep a little with some jazz. You try to break the afternoon with a movie.
More and more difficult to see decent movie, 1) You have seen in all some three thousand in your life). New entries are rarely attractive. Recently fits of anguish oblige you to go home after an hour or even less. Wait for the meal with some Freecells. Some jazz while you eat.
A way to kill an old man: take away his dog. His life will be impoverished, voided, senseless. There is an overflow of vitality from the dog to you if you love her and if she loves you (as it has happened for a year). Habits and expedients are not monitored any more by a living being.
Envy is a feeling which I never experienced.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
--Samuel Beckett
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