1-reading to zac “haroun and the sea of stories” by slaman rushdie, realising how smart that book is. getting into the flow of it, the performance, it’s small sections, inviting you to just read the next, and the next. its beautiful metaphors sculpted to the ears of children, ideas cascading to be picked up or ignored. the factories manufacturing sadness, the town that forgot its name. the boy who can concentrate for just eleven minutes, the storyteller that ran out of tales. the fact that it’s been on the bookshelf for months.
2-two day old peshwari nan, drops of water, grilled.
3-learning that thomas crapper was born in 1836 & that the first use of the verb “to crap” was recorded as 1846.
4-turning on the tv to see john cale perform live.
5-talking seriously about the motivations of a character in an ibsen play
6-this glass of wine
7-having sigur ros come on next
8-a friend texting me from cambodia whilst teaching another westerner how to clean their arse without toilet paper
