winter is coming
Sep. 14th, 2005 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtle1) For months, it's been too hot for me to sleep with any kind of covers at all. (I don't know if an uncovered bed is a matter of Deep Literary Significance, or if it drove me away from formal literary study under false pretences almost 30 years ago.) This past weekend was finally cool enough for me to take a light blanket out of the closet. This morning, I was about to leave for work when I realized I couldn't find the book I had been reading when I went to bed. Covers make it much harder to find books. (Covers in the sense of bedclothes. Bookbinding covers help.) I found Barbara Vine's _Minotaur_, which I finished yesterday, and Oliver Sacks' _Migraine_, which I had read a few pages of and decided I didn't want to read after all. I found the phone. I found _Kingdom Come_, which I think might be better as a comic book. I found Barbara Hambley's _Dragonsbane_, which is exactly the kind of book I read stacks of in the 1980s, and it seems less interesting now that I'm reading books one-off rather than by the stack...half of it might be sufficient. But I couldn't find _A Dark-Adapted Eye_! I wanted _A Dark-Adapted Eye_, and I didn't want to miss my bus. I found the phone again. It was not useful. Finally, I took the blanket off and shook it out. _A Dark-Adapted Eye_, there it was! Also _Prodigal Summer_ (which I thought I might want to reread) and _The Flight of the Horse_, which I actually did reread the first few stories. Jo, there's some lovely cardboard if you're looking for it.
2) Last fall, I went shopping for a Really No Fooling Waterproof Jacket. It was a project. I wore the jacket last fall, and through the winter (with a down jacket as a liner), and into the spring. It's been hanging in my closet for most of the summer. As you know, winter is coming. This morning, I put on the jacket and rushed out of the apartment. I was holding a small paperback, planning to read it on the bus, and thought it would be convenient to slip it into the big side zipper pocket of the jacket. As I unzipped it, I noticed I had left something in the pocket from the last time I wore it. I think it was once a plum. (Don't worry, the book is fine. I didn't put it in the pocket.) The waterproofing on the jacket is so thorough that I never smelled the rotten fruit until I unzipped the pocket.
2) Last fall, I went shopping for a Really No Fooling Waterproof Jacket. It was a project. I wore the jacket last fall, and through the winter (with a down jacket as a liner), and into the spring. It's been hanging in my closet for most of the summer. As you know, winter is coming. This morning, I put on the jacket and rushed out of the apartment. I was holding a small paperback, planning to read it on the bus, and thought it would be convenient to slip it into the big side zipper pocket of the jacket. As I unzipped it, I noticed I had left something in the pocket from the last time I wore it. I think it was once a plum. (Don't worry, the book is fine. I didn't put it in the pocket.) The waterproofing on the jacket is so thorough that I never smelled the rotten fruit until I unzipped the pocket.
