red and blue.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Posted with BlogsyFriday, May 24, 2013
shenfu--striking angle
"when flowers and trees are planted for the first time, it does not matter if they are set at an angle. let the leaves face where they will, for after a year they and the branches will straighten up by themselves. in fact, if a tree is planted straight up it will be difficult for it to grow into a striking shape."
shen fu, six records of a floating life; english by leonard pratt and chiang su-hui.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
lurker on the toronto subway
a person is waiting on the dufferin subway platform for an east bound train to take him downtown to yonge and bloor. he sees another person come out of the stairwell of the east bound platform. someone he has often seen collecting cigarette butts outside of a library near the subway at bloor and yonge.
the second person looks around down to the west end of the platform and then across to the other side of the tracks then down to the east end of the platform where the first person is standing. he sees the first person at the east end of the platform and makes a face suggesting he recognizes him and starts to walk to the east end of the platform.
the trains pulls in to the station and stops before the second person reaches the first person. the doors open and the first person gets on a carriage of the train and sits down. the second person follows him into the same carriage and sits down beside him though there are other seats available.
the second person is wearing hippie-sandles and places his left leg over his right knee and tries to touch the first person on the knee with his toes. the first person moves his knee away and the second person then again tries to touch the first person with his toes. the first person moves his knee again and the second person then puts his right elbow on his left leg and places his chin in his hand and turns his head to look at thre window across the ailse.
sitting across from them are other people one has a look of what the fuck is that guy trying to touch the other person with his toes look on her face, while another one raises her eyebrows and gives a sympathetic smile to the first person. the second person dosnt try any thing else as the train travels from dufferin to bay station where the first person gets off the carriage without being pursued.
next day the same thing occurs to the first person, he is waiting on the platform for the east bound train and the second person comes on to the platform and comes toward him on cue with the arrival of the train. follows him into the train and makes for the seat next to him, but this time the first person put his right hand on the seat next to him so the second person cant sit beside him.
when the second person sees this he places his hands to the sides of his head in a pose similar to that of the figure in edvard munchs painting the scream and walks further down the carriage. the first person is now wondering will it happen a third time, and recent news reports of a person being pushed on to the train tracks comes to mind and he resolves to be more watchful while on the subway.
a couple of weeks later the first person passes the second person on the side walk near a library at bloor and yonge. the second person is cleaned up and has a hair cut, he is wearing new clean clothes and also is carrying a carton of cigarettes in one hand. he points to his carton of smokes with other hand smiling at the first person as he passes by.
a library near yonge and bloor streets in toronto.
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