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cute library girl Monday afternoon trying to stay awake in the library. Instead of studying I've been alternately staring at the people walking by down below or napping. Having been awake since four yesterday afternoon, closing my eyes is a definite pleasure. Sealing myself off from everything. Letting sounds become more distant. Feeling my body relax. For some unknown reason the third floor of the library also happens to be the fiction section, so I tend to stumble across something new whenever I go there. This time my choice was Roger Zelazny and his book The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth. I only had time to read the opening story, but it reminded me of The Scar by China Mieville. Both stories were about reeling in a large sea creature of some sort, which according to the second story is a very male theme. As to why this is so, I do not know. I mean there is The Old Man and the Sea, but is a fish just as phallic as a serpent? I must have missed that point in my literature classes. |