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July 27, 2004
No Motivation
I created a new list of 10 things to do this week--some important (renewing my prescription medication without any medical insurance), some not so vital (like finding a pair of pink slingbacks that have been packed away somewhere). Unfortunately, I have no motivation.
Instead, let me share a couple of sentences from Anne Proulx's The Shipping News, which I just started. So far, I am not impressed--her language is so stilted that it makes reading very jolty. But occasionally, there is a gem.
- A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
- In another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan. When she needed burning cities, the stumbling babble of captives, horses exhausted from tracing the reeling borders of her territories, she had only petty triumphs of sexual encounters.
I'm only on page 13, so I'm sure there will be more to come. But first, I am determined to cross 3 things off my list before picking up the book again.
