Friday, February 27, 2009

curve ball or winning hand

happy John Steinbeck's birthday! the start of Tibetan New Year happened a couple days ago, so i'll say Happy New Year again too. have put down The Grapes of Wrath for the time being, stopping at chapter 5 (of course i'll continue it and finish it later!) to read Daniel Tammet's memoir Born on a Blue Day.
the blog entry previous to this one ends in thunder. Daniel experiences the number 5 as loud like thunder. William Carlos Williams and Charles Demuth saw the figure 5 in gold accompanied by gong clangs, siren howls and wheels rumbling. in a still undeveloped photo, the 5 digits of my hand curve to hold an edible ball, an orange with a large patch of green mold. on a recent day when i got thrown a curve ball (unexpectedly finding the post office, the library and the bank all closed for President's Day) at home i put 6 of my hand self-portraits on a bulletin board along with other things;...

....(TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW 'CAUSE IT's LATE & I'M SLEEPY)...

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