My back aches like anything. I really feel like a poor girl today. The thing is, ya know, I have fever. Probably the result of translsting too much French commercial jargon. Did you know that 'vignette'is explained as 'tax disc' in Larousse? I don't know what it means, in French or English, and have used it, like, twenty times.
I am reading Coetzee's 'Life and Times of Michael K' and like it very much indeed. Trouble is, I have not had much in the day and that's not a good idea if u have a cold (mild), fever(fairly hot forehead), sore back, sore throat (okay, that;s just very little). But the back, the bloody back. I am just 23, why should one have back aches at 23? I was remembering baba a lot today, y'know, that it all began with a tickle down the spine. I don't think dying is a good idea now, even if it might cause me to be united with my father again. I thought about it. Death, even with promise of baba, is not nice. And I can't really believe, even when I try, that I'll meet him again.
You kind of, like, go on, you know, shut out things and live. And at some point, you won't have to shut them out either. You can remember even the most frightening things and be serene. Michael K is a lot about all this. And it soothes so much, Coetzee's simplicity, and the love with which he writes.
That's enough for the day, I'd think.
Bad English is my birthright
3 comments:
told u so. about coetzee, i mean.
get back checked.
a virus can kill u if it wants to....at any time of the day ...month or year...but u cant fight it back u know? just try...go on trying...at each stage confirming that u cant kill it...and prove ur frailty to urself. anyway u got a bad cold...get some good sleep. and an antibiotic i wud suggest...but then like i said u cant kill a virus. u'll get well. the backs ache so as to make us feel that their IS A BACK-side NO MATTER HOW MUCH U TRY TO LOOK INFRONT...:) ok...that was silly
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