Shiver me timbers…

Avast, ye Scurvy Scum, Arrr!!!!……..I have indeed taken on the image of a pirate gleefully hoarding the contents of Davey Jones’ Locker, as horrible an image as that may be.

A rather grand birthday week culminated on Friday with the long overdue arrival of my Amazon package. So if you will allow a quiet gloat or two, my loot consists of a good few musical banquets, Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Jeff VanderMeer’s City of Saints and Madmen and Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s Stamping Butterflies.

For those curious as to the details of said musical banquets, I submit the following for your disentanglement:

Once you’re lost in twilights’s blue
You don’t find your way, the way finds you

It takes the weight out of living

And my soul’s just a silhouette
On the ashes of a cigarette

It’s a little too much to ask of faith
A little too late to wait for fate
So tell the angels what you’ve seen
Scarecrow shadow on the Nazarene

This is the army of none, got no flag, got no home

This is the pocket-sized edition
Rapid sleep through benediction

We’re just blind pilots
In strange planes
Back seat drivers
In dead cars

No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches

In other news, Lucretia has done some work on the various segments of the collective story crossing ‘leitmotiv’, which now stands as a short story or, more hopefully, the seed to another branch. Time will tell…….

Ten Miles will most likely be a place for quiet reflection over the next few days, as yours truly embarks on a journey to the darkest depths of sadomasochism, otherwise known as ’study leave’. Exams start on Friday, so pray that I come to my senses and depart the country well before then.

Thanks again to all who so unexpectedly left birthday wishes, if I don’t turn up in some wild corner of Borneo, I shall return soon!

“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”

– Stephen Jay Gould

~ by tenmiles on May 9, 2005.