3 Questions
Dangerous Reader,
Wait. Wait.
First I have to tell you:
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Now. The 3 questions:
1. Were you popular in high school?
2. Did a book ever change your life?
3. What rugs do you recommend for the Hovel? (Your lighting recommendations were BRILLIANT don’t ya know.)
Ruminating?
1. Were you popular in high school?
Probably one of the inquiries that reveals the most about who you will became and . . . who you are now.
2. Did a book ever change your life?
Oddly, when I choose well, or choose stupidly, nearly every book I read changes my life. But the book with the most impact: Green Mansions by W.H.Hudson. I found it on the family bookshelf at 15.
3. What rugs do you recommend for the Hovel?
I need you help here, Conflabbians. I am lost….. have spent—not exaggerating—hours on rugs.com.
P.P.S. I am so pleased at myself for following your suggestions for lighting cuz now the Hovel glows (unless I look at the floor). Plus Jenny Warburg sent me something she found in her shed.
I named him Herald.
In high school I was the girl with a frizzy perm and thick glasses who ate lunch with the girl from China who barely spoke English so I wouldn't be eating alone. We graduated in 1959 and we're still friends -- 67 years later. I have a hard time even remembering the name of anyone else in our class.
Four Gated City by Doris Lessing led me to Idries Shah and Sufi mysticism.
I have a magic carpet that I bought in India decades ago. It's the most expensive thing I've ever bought except for my car. But I think any carpet can be magic if it has a distinct central figure for contemplation. That center is my dog's favorite place to lie.
I was moderately popular in high school - the REALLY popular kids didn't consider me one of them, but the non-popular kids repeatedly told me I was a popular kid. If that makes any sense. I was mostly a nerd.
A book that changed my life: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Read it when I was 12. Reread it so many times. My first exposure to an unreliable narrator, and the first of many books I wish I'd written myself.
Rugs! I have knockoff Persian rugs - what with my leather armchair and many bookshelves, it gives a sort of Ivy League library-esque look to my front room. I love these rugs. If I ever move, I will probably have to part with them and get new knockoffs.